Student file of Silas Childers, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on May 8, 1885. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, correspondence, and a report after leaving indicating that Childers was working as a painter in Jenks, Oklahoma, in 1911. …
Childers, Silas
![Silas Childers Student File Silas Childers Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b013_f0603_0001.jpg?itok=-RXCWL5m)
![Silas Childers Student Information Card Silas Childers Student Information Card](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1329_b011_c00_0484.jpg?itok=-NeS5MX_)
Student information card of Silas Childers, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on May 8, 1885. The file indicates Childers was living in Jenks, Oklahoma in 1913.
![Silas Childers, c.1881 Silas Childers, c.1881](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2368%20022.jpg?itok=5OtNiEgg)
Studio portrait of Silas Childers wearing school uniform.
![Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand [version 1], 1881 Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand [version 1], 1881](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73389.jpg?itok=A1TSm1VG)
Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand on the school grounds. All are wearing school uniforms. In the front row (from left to right) are: Almarine McKellop, Robert Stewart, Alexander McNac, Ellis Childers, Samuel Checote, and Corenlius Carr. In the back row (front left to right) are: Benjamin Marshall, James Bell, Samuel Scott, and…
![Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand [version 2], 1881 Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand [version 2], 1881](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_062b.jpg?itok=TPSXhZUD)
Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand on the school grounds. All are wearing school uniforms. In the front row (from left to right) are: Almarine McKellop, Robert Stewart, Alexander McNac, Ellis Childers, Samuel Checote, and Corenlius Carr. In the back row (front left to right) are: Benjamin Marshall, James Bell, Samuel Scott, and…
![Silas Childers, c.1884 Silas Childers, c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_074c.jpg?itok=H36cc80T)
Studio portrait of Silas Childers wearing school uniform.
![Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Tullahassee Mission, 1881 Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Tullahassee Mission, 1881](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0004_01376_c0004.jpg?itok=mF04kQSD)
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.
![Printed Program of the Sixth Annual Examination Printed Program of the Sixth Annual Examination](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/PI-2-5-1885_001.jpg?itok=JwUtWj9b)
The program includes singing and recitation and other displays of acquired knowledge and speeches. The names of participating students are listed. Another part of the program was a discussion on the topic: “Should the Indians be farmers or stock-raisers?"