Given, Julia

Student file of Julia Given, a member of the Kiowa Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882, and ultimately departed on October 30, 1893. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a former student response postcard, correspondence, a returned student survey…

Student information card of Julia Given, a member of the Kiowa Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and departed on October 30, 1893. The file indicates Given was married and living in Gotebo, Oklahoma.

This issue opened with a poem titled “A CLUSTER OF NEVERS,” from Selected, followed by a fictionalized conversation between two boys traveling to their homes in the west from Carlisle titled “TWO BOYS TALK IN THE CARS ON THEIR WAY HOME: WHAT THEY MAY HAVE SAID.” In the conversation, “Ira” and “Bart” muse about their appreciation of…

The first page opened with a poem by titled “When a Girl Knows How” to sew, bake and knit followed by “You Home-Going Boys and Girls: Will you be in the New or the Old of the Moon?” which asked J.H. Segar what the Cheyenne and Arapho boys and girls were doing at their agency in Cantonment, Oklahoma. Page two continued the news from Cantonment…

Studio portrait of Julia Given and her brother, Joshua Given.

Studio portrait of two visiting Kiowa Chiefs with two male students and one female student. Based on comparison with other photographs, we believe the students are Joshua Given (standing at right), Julia Given, and Otto Zotoum (standing at left). Chief Big Bow is seated on the left and Sun Boy on the right. 

Studio portrait of Joshua Given and Julia Given.

Studio portrait of Joshua Given and Julia Given.

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, received from his students on December 25, 1886.

Studio portrait of Julia Given.

Studio portrait of Julia Given.