Gilbert

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Gilbert (Short Leg) Student Information Card
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Student information card of Gilbert (Short Leg), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on September 3, 1881.

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Gilbert (Short Leg) Student Information Card
Date of Entry:

Student information card of Gilbert, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on September 3, 1881.

In school documentation Gilbert is also known as Short Leg (also spelled Short Legs) and Ho-pteh-che-lah.

 

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
The School News (Vol. 1, No. 12)
May 1881

Number 12. Opened with a letter from Charles Kauboodle (Kiowa) to his cousin Laura, talking about what they’ve learned in school, their family, and wishing her a quick recovery from the sickness she has. Jessa Bent also had a few sentences on the desert published at the bottom of the page. The next page has a piece titled “Peace” about the hope…

Format:
Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Five Sioux students [version 1], c.1879

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).

Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Five Sioux students [version 1], c.1879

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).

Format:
Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
black and white scan of front of letter
September 30, 1879

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

 

Format:
Reports
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Send Gilbert and Norman Home
September 1, 1881

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for the expenses of returning to their homes Gilbert and Norman due to their poor health.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration