Berht, Stella

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Stella Berht (White Horse) Student Information Cards
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Student information card of Stella Berht (White Horse), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and ultimately departed on June 14, 1887.

Note: Berht was also known as Stella Chasing Hawk. 

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Stella Berht (White Horse) Student Information Cards
Date of Entry:

Student information cards of Stella Berht, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and ultimately departed on June 14, 1887. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered.

In school documentation Stella Berht is also known as White Horse, White Mare, and Sunka-wah-kan-skah.…

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879 

Note: This image is different from the more commonly seen one. Here there are only twelve people in the back row, not thirteen (it is not yet determined who is not present here). Sarah Mather and Charles Tackett are not included…

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Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
First group of female students [version 1], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right. 

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

The…

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Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
First group of female students [version 2], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left. 

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Stereograph
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
First group of female students [version 3], 1879

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.

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Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of nine Sioux students, c.1879

Portrait of nine Sioux students posed next to one of the school buildings. The students are Edward Little (Behind), James (White Man), George Hollow Horned Bear (Little Man), George Hollow Horned Bear (Little Man), Bernard (Hawk Charging Daylight), David (Kills Without Warning), Horace (White Whirlwind), Hope Blue Teeth, Ida (Shoes), and Stella…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Five Sioux girls [version 1], c.1880

Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Five Sioux girls [version 2], c.1880

Studio portrait of Ruth (Looking Woman), Hattie Long Wolf, Anna Laura, Grace Cook, and Stella Berht.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image: CS-CH-066, PA-CH1-023a, and 10-B-12.1-.4.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Stella Berht, c.1880

Studio portrait of Stella Berht. 

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Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 1], c.1880

Studio portrait of teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students. The students are: Ann Laura (back left), Hattie Long Wolf (back middle), Rebecca Big Star (back right), Alice Wynn (middle row left), Grace Cook (middle row right), Mabel Doanmoe (bottom left), Stella Berht (bottom center), and Ruth (Looking Woman) (bottom right). The girls…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students [version 2], c.1880

Studio portrait of teacher Mary Hyde and eight female students. The students are: Ann Laura (back left), Hattie Long Wolf (back middle), Rebecca Big Star (back right), Alice Wynn (middle row left), Grace Cook (middle row right), Mabel Doanmoe (bottom left), Stella Berht (bottom center), and Ruth (Looking Woman) (bottom right). The girls all…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
black and white scan of front of letter
September 30, 1879

Descriptive Statement of young people being sent to the Carlisle Indian School from Rosebud Agency, as sent by the Rosebud Indian Agent Cicero Newell. 

 

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Reports
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for May 1887
May 26, 1887

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration