Bear, Louis

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Louis Bear (Iwanyankinajin) Student File
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Student file of Louis Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on September 10, 1905 and departed on June 8, 1909. The file contains a student information card, an application for enrollment, a medical/physical record, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a progress/conduct card, a trade record card,…

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Louis Bear Progress Card
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Progress card of Louis Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on September 10, 1905.

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Louis Bear Student Information Card
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Student information card of Louis Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on September 10, 1905 and departed on June 8, 1909. The file indicates Bear was living in Crazy, North Dakota in 1913 and Tokio, North Dakota in 1914.

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Request for Return Home from Louis Bear
May 31 - June 14, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Louis Bear to return to his home before his term of enrollment had expired.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
First page of the typed transcript of Louis Brown's testimony
February 6, 1914

A typed transcript of Louis Brown's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Brown was a student at Carlisle.

Brown discusses the use of force by the disciplinarians of the school and the biased way punishment is given. He claims that students receive punishments disproportionate to the offence they…

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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration