Keller, A. R.

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Group of visiting chiefs with Richard Henry Pratt, 1880

Group portrait of thirteen Crow and Shoshone and Bannock, who visited the school on May 18, 1880. They are pictured with five white agents and interpreters, as well as Richard Henry Pratt (seated in chair at right). They are posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds.

Back row on the far left is interpreter Tom Stewart, and…

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Admission of Crow Children to Carlisle
April 9, 1881

A. R. Keller, U.S. Indian Agent at the Montana Crow Agency, writes to see if it would be possible to send a delegation of Crow children to Carlisle in the summer. Keller notes that the Agency has had little success in meeting its educational goals and indicates a boarding school would have a greater chance of succeeding.

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