Student file of Maud Chief Killer, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882, and departed on June 14, 1887. The file contains student information cards, and a report after leaving indicating Chief Killer was working as a housekeeper in Calumet, Oklahoma in 1910.
In school documentation Maud Chief…
Student information card of Maud Chief Killer, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and departed on June 14, 1887.
Note: Chief Killer married fellow student Colonel Elk Horn also known as Colonel Horn.
Student file of Nonie Chief Killer, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 21, 1886, and departed on December 7, 1886. The file contains student information cards and a report after leaving indicating that Chief Killer was working as a housekeeper in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1910.
In school…
Student information card of Nonie Chief Killer (No-nic-ki-si), a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 21, 1886 and departed on December 7, 1886.
The first page opens with a poem titled "A Fourteen-Year-Old Girl's Good Advice," followed by an article called "The Menomonees and Pottawatomies Dance: A Story by Lucy Jordan, Stockbridge, a pupil from Wisconsin," that told of an 1882 visit by dancers to her home agency in Keshena, Wisconsin. Page two includes an offer of photographs for new…
The first page opens with a poem titled “"Health Alphabet" listing health advice, A-Z followed by a description of horse grooming titled "George Washington's Horse." Page two opens with an article titled "Silver" that admonished Indian students to fight against the…
The first page opens with a poem titled "Much Depends on Your Aiming," about keeping to the straight path, followed by "A Boy Froze to Death While On Duty," about the effects of an ice storm on Lake Michigan followed by "Moved Again," in which the Man-on-the-band-stand opined that Indians who are not educated have no say in decisions made about…
Studio portrait of Chief Killer, a Cheyenne chief, with his wife and five children. Chief Killer is seated at left and his wife is seated at right. Standing behind them are two young women and one young man, all dressed in Carlisle uniforms. One of the girls is almost certainly student Maud Chief Killer, who would have been sixteen years old…