Coal, Summer B.

Student file of Summer B. Coal, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on June 17, 1884. The file contains a student information card and a report after leaving that indicates Coal was living in Fort Washakie, Wyoming in 1910.

In school documentation Summer B. Coal is also known as Summer…

Student information card of Summer B. Coal, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on June 17, 1884.

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapaho who arrived in March 1881.

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students who…

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapahoes who arrived in March 1881. 

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students…

C. H. Hepburn, the Carlisle School physician, reports on the general good health of the newly arrived students from the Shoshone Agency in the Wyoming Territory. He notes one student has scarring associated with scrofula but has no current enlarged lymph nodes and is presently healthy.

Correspondence regarding statements made by Rev. John Roberts, missionary at the Shoshone Agency, regarding mortality of students from that reservation. Also included is a list of all students from the Agency sent to various schools including the Carlisle Indian School.