Telegram with Instruction to Bring Indian Territory Party

Date
October 18, 1879

Telegram from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra Hayt sent to Richard Henry Pratt or Alfred J. Standing. (Hayt did not know who was at Wichita, Kansas to receive the telegram.) 

The telegram reads: "Bring on Osage, Pawnee, and Ponca children." 

 

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Time Period
1870-1879
Year
1879
Nation
Osage
Pawnee
Ponca
People
Pratt, Richard Henry
Standing, Alfred J.
Hayt, Ezra A.
Format
Letters/Correspondence
Topics
Recruitment of Students
Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Entry 96, volume 27a, page 135
Hand-written transcription of a telegram on standardized Office of Indian Affairs form
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