Fisher, Effie

The first page opens with a poem titled "There's Danger," about the evils of drink. Next appears "In an Indian Camp: How to Cook Beans," adapted from the Cheyenne Transporter newspaper, about cleaning cooking utensils before using them. The article continues on page four. Page two includes "The Work of the Blind" that describes samples of…

The first page opens with a poem titled "I'm Not Too Young" reprinted from Scattered Seeds. The next article, "Hoe Handle Medicine" extolls the medicinal effects of exercise. Page two features several small stories, including Paul Eagle Star's (Sioux) outing assignment, a piece describing bicycles for men and tricycles for women, and a critique…

The first page opens with a poem titled "English Speaking," that discouraged students from speaking their native languages. The page also includes an article titled "How Miss Fisher went to Call on the President's Wife," that described Mrs. Fracnces Cleveland's dress and the decor of White House rooms in a visit by a Carlisle Indian School…

View of students in uniforms seated at rows of desks in a school room with a white female teacher. Some students are standing in front by the chalk boards. 

The caption identifies this as Miss Fisher's class room. School records indicate Elspeth (or Effie) Fisher taught at the school from 1881 to 1892. 

Studio portrait of seventeen unidentified male students posed with two white boys. The caption identifies them as Miss Fisher's class. School records show Effie or Elspeth Fisher taught at the school intermittently between 1881 and 1892. 

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, the white woman as Miss Fisher and provides a date of October 1892. 

The school newspapers say that the student group the King's Daughters had four subgroups or "circles," and that…

Portrait of eighteen female students, with one white woman in center, posed on the school grounds. The caption identifies them as the student group the King's Daughters and also as the Sunshine Scatters. The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of the image also identifies them as the Sunshine Scatters, but also names the…

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he believes in keeping Elspeth Fisher in her current position unless he receives contrary orders.

Richard Henry Pratt sends a letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advising him that teacher Effie (Elspeth) Fisher wants to use her 24-day leave of absence before she goes west to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Richard Henry Pratt sends a telegram to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs advising him that teacher Effie (Elspeth) Fisher wants to use her 24-day leave of absence before she goes west to Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Richard Henry Pratt advises the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the dates teacher Effie (Elspeth) Miss Fisher was paid for her leave of absence. Pratt also tells the Commissioner that Fisher understood that she would not be paid a full month's pay even though she requested it.