Sioux

View of Raymond Stewart's property in Rosebud, South Dakota around 1912.

The reverse side includes a short note from Stewart to administrators at the Carlisle Indian School.

The caption reads: HOMES OF INDIANS EDUCATED AT CARLISLE

The printed note reads: ABNER ST. CYR, WINNEBAGO, NEB.    JOSEPH DUBRAY, SIOUX, REVINIA, S. D.   JAMES WALDO, KIOWA, ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA   MRS. LAURA PEDRICK, KIOWA, ANADARKO, OKLAHOMA.    LEVI ST. CYR, WINNEBAGO, WINNEBAGO…

Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913. 

The students are identified as,back row: Francis Eastman, Henry Broker, Montreville Yuda, Fred Sickles, Peter Eastman, and Harrison Smith; middle row: Sylvia Moon, Estelle Bradley;…

Group portrait of eight female students and seven male students posed in front of a school building with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913. In this version of the image, the woman to the left of the banner is facing to the right. The Cumberland County Historical has another glass plate negative version of this image (00314A#70) in which…

Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.

Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society also owns a…

Group portrait of eight female students, seven male students and one white female teacher, posed on the school grounds with a banner reading "Perseverance Class 1913.

Note: In the photo of this graduating class posed in front of a building, the students are identified. 

Studio portrait of Mikey Tahdooahnippah and David Iron Elk. 

A female student posed standing in front of an easel, apparently copying a painting of flowers. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging describes the image's label as being partially illegible, but seems to say that the student is Nettie Standing Bear.  

Studio portrait of a student posed in native clothing playing a "native" flute. This is presumably James Holy Eagle. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Holy Eagle -- (Sioux) Plays the Native Flute." 

Portrait of Thomas Hawk Eagle in a football uniform. 

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption "Hawkeagle (Sioux) Guard, 1914."

The school band in uniform with instruments posed in front of a building. A written caption identifies George F. Tyrrell (band leader), James Garvie, and James Holy Eagle in the front row. 

The handwritten note reads: Mr. Stephen K. Murray and wife.  Cut meat, S. D.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Jerome Feather.

Jerome Feather in his Infantry uniform after joining the military on June 1, 1917.

Letter from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra E. Hayt to Indian Agent E. Stephens at Green Bay Agency authorizing him to recruit two Menominee boys from Keshena to go to Hampton Institute, payment for which had already been sent along to Mrs. W. Wheeler from General Armstrong. Hayt also suggests that he might meet up with Indian Agent Charles…

Telegram from Richard Henry Pratt noting the arrival of Agent Crissey with Sisseton, Standing Rock, and Cheyenne River Sioux children, Green Bay Menominee children, and Chief Little No Heart at Carlisle. Pratt suggests that all these children should be sent to the Hampton Institute.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt denies the request of American Horse to visit Washington DC and Carlisle (to see his children), citing concerns about the winter weather. Hayt says to W. McK. Heath (the recipient of the letter) that plans will be made for some of the members of the Oglala Sioux to visit Carlisle in the spring instead…

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt informs the Indian Agent of Rosebud Agency Cicero Newell that he cannot consider Spotted Tail's request to visit Carlisle this winter. "It is not deemed best for any of the members of the tribe to make the proposed visit this winter." Instead, arrangements will be made in the spring. 

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Two duplicate copies of the monthly school report for January 1880, submitted by the Carlisle Indian Training School to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The report includes a list of employees, a count of students by Nation/Tribe, descriptions of the educational program, and Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's remarks about developments and…

Richard Henry Pratt requests additional money for postage of student letters from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Pratt states that letter-writing increases student morale and promotes the school's reputation among their families and tribes.

These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statements of Pupils regarding 27 children transferred to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Carlisle Indian School. Those children, from a variety of Nations, had previously been sent to Carlisle. 

These materials include a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 13 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Pine Ridge Agency.

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding three students discharged from the Carlisle Indian School and transferred back to their homes at the Green Bay, Rosebud, and Pine Ridge Agencies.

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 4 individuals transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Green Bay Agency, and 4 individuals discharged from Carlisle and transferred back to their homes in the Pine Ridge Agency due to sickness. A single Descriptive Statement was used for both groups…

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…

These materials include a descriptive statement of students regarding 15 individuals sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Pine Ridge Agency of the Dakota Territory.

Note: Some people listed here were re-enrolling at Carlisle (having left and come back) while others (such as Mary Sitting Bear) did not enroll at this time, but…