Chief Killer, Maud

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. 

This issue opened with a poem titled “CLASS OF INDIAN BOYS,” written by a Quaker farm wife about a group of Outing students. The next article was titled “A TRIP” by Katie Grinrod (Wyandotte), which gave the account of her and Clara Cornelius’(Oneida) trip to Philadelphia with their Outing family. Page two opened with “A Better Chance” that…

The first page opened with a poem by Bayard Taylor with the first line "Learn to live, and live to learn” followed by the fourth installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: All Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” (continued from the previous week).…

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 29).

Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Leila Jones and Maud Chief Killer, both wearing school uniforms.

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…

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.