Pratt Responds to Sioux Delegation Returned Student Death Rate Claim

Date
January 2, 1890

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the visiting Sioux delegation claims of thirty to seventy per cent death rate of returned students dying within four years. Pratt writes that Carlisle has returned 101 students to the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies and 82 are living today.

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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Entry 91, box 583, 1890-#205
Pratt Responds to Sioux Delegation Returned Student Death Rate Claim