Student file of Leonard Kanesewah, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on November 4, 1886, and departed on March 26, 1894. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, and a report after leaving indicating that Kanesewah was working as a farmer in 1914 in Mescalero, New Mexico.
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Student information card of Leonard Kanesewah, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on November 4, 1886 and departed on March 26, 1894. The file indicates Mescalero, New Mexico in 1914.
These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 37 Chiricahua Apache prisoners-of-war transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida, where a larger group of Geronimo's band remained imprisoned. The 37 individuals transferred to Carlisle represented a portion of all…