Student information card of Lulu Bridgeman, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 19, 1882.
Bridgeman, Lulu


Student information card of Lulu Bridgeman, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 19, 1882.
In school documentation Lulu Bridgeman is also known Mary J. Bridgeman and Luleu.
![Seven Sioux students [version 1], c.1879 Seven Sioux students [version 1], c.1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2317%20%28Choate%20%2321%29%20Full%20039.jpg?itok=r6uu1tl5)
Seven Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds shortly after their arrival. They are: Guy (Bear Don't Scare), Amos Lone Hill, Bennett (Singer), Frank Twiss, Lizzie Glode (also known as Daisy Glode), Lucy Day, and Mary (Lulu) Bridgeman.
![Seven Sioux students [version #2], c.1879 Seven Sioux students [version #2], c.1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_sg0314.jpg?itok=tfRoCd0m)
Seven Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds shortly after their arrival. They are: Guy (Bear Don't Scare), Amos Lone Hill, Bennett (Singer), Frank Twiss, Lizzie Glode (also known as Daisy Glode), Lucy Day, and Lulu (Mary) Bridgeman.
![First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879 First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%232.jpg?itok=ep1tLMr7)
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, and…
![First group of female students [version 1], 1879 First group of female students [version 1], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_012a.jpg?itok=inqzvuM7)
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…
![First group of female students [version 2], 1879 First group of female students [version 2], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0037.jpg?itok=1bkZ7aqY)
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.
![First group of female students [version 3], 1879 First group of female students [version 3], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%231.jpg?itok=oo4QV0uj)
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.