Pueblo

The handwritten note reads: Thomas Montoya    John Needham

John Needham and Thomas Montoya in their respective uniforms with four other unidentified soldiers. Three separate photos.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Aniseto Ortego.

Aniseto Orgeto in uniform.

Letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge to Rev. Sheldon Jackson informing him that plans are in motion to for Lt. Brown to travel West and secure children from the Ute, Navajo, and Pueblo Tribes. Trowbridge was responding to a recommendation from Jackson dated March 1 to recruit from the Southwest Tribes.

Rev. Sheldon Jackson continues correspondence with Pratt regarding bringing Navajo and Pueblo students to Carlisle. He notes that "the Navajoes are very restless just now & we may have difficulty in security their consent." 

Jose La Cruz Marcus, the Governor of the San Felipe, and Lorenzo Duran, the Captain of War, send Richard Henry Pratt a note of appreciation for educating the Pueblo students.

Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew with an update on the school and the rising number of students. He also writes about his desire to find benefactors interested in creating a new Indian industrial school to accommodate more students.

Transcript included.

Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew regarding the raising of funds for the school.  Pratt also discusses the sending home of about 75 pupils, and invites Agnew to join him on his trip to New Mexico.  This letter is part of a series of related correspondence which can be found using the People tags…

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 61 individuals discharged from the Carlisle Indian School and transferred back to their homes in the San Carlos, Laguna, Wallace, Isleta, Quapaw, Eufaula, Omaha, Winnebago, Nez Perce, Crow, Kiowa and Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Ponca, Rosebud, and Pine…

A series of twenty-three letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

A series of twenty nine letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

A series of nineteen letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

Signed request of Antonio Tapia to participate in the outing program at the Carlisle Indian School along with a copy of the outing rules signed by Tapia, Richard Henry Pratt, and William Balderston.

This program was distributed for the 1908 Commencement Exercises, which took place on Thursday, April 2nd. Inside features a portrait of Moses Friedman, the Superintendent, Francis E. Leupp, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Charles H. Dickson, the Supervisor-in Charge, as well as a portrait of the Class of 1908. Included is a full schedule…

These materials include correspondence regarding the transfer of Filerio Tafoya from Carlisle to the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School to take a course in electrical engineering.

This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…