Black, Ernie

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Ernie Black (Little Wolf) Student File
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Student file of Ernie Black, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on February 3, 1881, and departed on June 14, 1887.  The file contains a student information card, a former student response survey, and a report after leaving indicating that he was living in Cantonment and Longdale, Oklahoma, working as an interpreter…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Ernie Black Student Information Card
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Student information card of Ernie Black, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on February 3, 1881 and departed on June 14, 1887. The file indicates Black was living in Longdale, Oklahoma in 1913 and Cantonment, Oklahoma in 1914.

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
Abe Sommers Student File
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Student file of Abe Sommers , a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and ultimately departed on November 12, 1896. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a former student response postcard, and a report after leaving. The file…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Dana Black Student File
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Student file of Dana Black, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 28, 1917 and departed on June 24, 1918. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, financial transactions, and correspondence.

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
The Indian Helper (Vol. 3, No. 17)
December 2, 1887

The first page opened with a poem, "Do the Right, Boys," followed by  a letter from Richard Yellow Robe, entitled "An Indian Boy's Experience: Written by Himself as a Composition and Read at our last Month's Exhibition" about his escape from the battle in which Custer was killed and his subsequent enrollment in the Carlisle Indian School.…

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Newspapers
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 42)
June 7, 1889

The first page opened with a poem by Susan Coolidge titled “New Every Morning,” followed by a letter from Ernie Black (Cheyenne) titled “News from our Cheyenne and Arapahoe Boys.” Also on the page was a reprint from The Sunday School Times titled “We Must Be Run Through a Mill.” Page two opened with a quote from Paul Boynton (Arapho)…

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Ernie Black, c.1882

Studio portrait of Ernie Black. 

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 1], c.1886

Studio portrait of Ernie Black and his sister Jennie Black.

A handwritten caption along the side of the image probably reads: Ernie Black and his Sister.

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 2], c.1886

Studio portrait of Ernie Black and Jennie Black.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Ernie Black and Sister. Cheyennes from Ind. Ter.

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Ernie Black and Jennie Black [version 3], c.1886

Studio portrait of Ernie Black and his sister Jennie Black. 

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for June 1886
May 26, 1886

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Age of Students Being Sent Home in June 1886
June 3, 1886

Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.

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Letters/Correspondence
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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.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Former Carlisle Student Candidates for Vacant Indian Service Positions
June 11, 1896

Alfred John Standing provides to W. N. Hailmann an assessment of the suitability of some former students for open positions in the Indian Service.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration