Dora

Note: As of July 2021, the remains of Dora (Her Pipe) have been disinterred and repatriated. Dora was previously interred in plot B-28.

Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Dora (Her Pipe), a member of the Sioux Nation.

Student information card of Dora (Her Pipe), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and died on April 24, 1881. She was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

Student information card of Dora, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and died on April 24, 1881. Dora was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

In school documentation Dora is also known as Her Pipe and Tah-chah-no-pe.

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879 

Note: This image is different from the more commonly seen one. Here there are only twelve people in the back row, not thirteen (it is not yet determined who is not present here). Sarah Mather and Charles Tackett are not included…

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right. 

This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).

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Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left. 

Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.

Group of five Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. They are Conrad (Thunder), Gilbert (Short Leg), Arnold (Runs After the Moon), Dora (Her Pipe), and Ruth (Looking Woman).

Group of five Sioux students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. They are Conrad (Thunder), Gilbert (Short Leg), Arnold (Runs After the Moon), Dora (Her Pipe), and Ruth (Looking Woman).

Studio portrait of Fanny and Dora both wearing school uniforms.

Descriptive Statement of young people being sent to the Carlisle Indian School from Rosebud Agency, as sent by the Rosebud Indian Agent Cicero Newell. 

Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to send Dora home to the Rosebud Agency with Dr. Faulkner.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards the reports of school physician C. H. Hepburn on the deaths of Dora (Her Pipe), Rose (Red Rose), and Albert. Hepburn provides details on the treatment and condition of each student as well as their illnesses including measles, bronchopneumonia or bronchitis, and pneumonia.