Checote, Rachel

Student file of Rachel Checote, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on June 3, 1884. The file contains student information cards, a former student response postcard, correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Checote was a housewife living in Holdenville,…

Student information card of Rachel Checote, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on June 3, 1884. The file indicates Checote was married and living in Holdenville, Oklahoma in 1914.

The first page began with a poem titled “Do Your Best,” followed by “The Man-On-the-Band-Stand and a Stranger,” which described the “old gentleman’s” effort to thwart the hiring of an Outing student who was careless with arithmetic. It continued on page four. Page two began with “A Manly Resolution,” that reported Felix Iron Eaglefeather’s (…

Portrait of fifteen female students with a female teacher posed in front of and on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption on the album page identifies them as Creek students who arrived in January 1881. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society and has identified them as: front row, left to right, Elizabeth McIntosh, Rosa…

Studio portrait of Rachel Checote possibly wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Rachel Checote possibly wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Dexter Loco (standing), Mabel Kelcusay (sitting at left), and Rachel Checote (sitting at right).

Note: Previous cataloging interprets the handwritten caption as reading: "Dexter Loco, Mabel and Rachel." Based on this information, we believe the two women to be Mabel Kelcusay (who arrived on the same day as Dexter Loco…

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.