Keryte, Samuel

Student file of Samuel Keryte, a member of the Queres Nation, who entered the school August 24, 1884 and departed July 8, 1889. The file contains a student information card listing two outings and a report after leaving which indicates that Keryte was working in a Rail Road shop in Isleta, New Mexico in 1910.

Student information card of Samuel Keryte, a member of the Pueblo Nation, who entered the school on August 24, 1884 and departed on July 8, 1889.

The first page opened with a poem "Willie’s First Boots” followed by “What Lawrence Learned,” about how Right Time and Right Place brought a boy success, reprinted from Wide Awake. Page two opened with a travelogue through California and Arizona to the Grand Canyon titled “Elevation – By Thermometer, and Rail.” Also on the page was a…

Studio portrait of Stailey Norcross (standing at left), Samuel Keryte (seated in center), and Lorenzo Martinez (standing at right).

Studio portrait of Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte, both wearing school uniforms. Keryte is definitely the student standing at right.

Note: The identification of Kinery is a guess based on interpreting the handwritten caption, and the fact that he arrived on the same day as Keryte. Kinery was 14 at arrival and Keryte was 16.…

Studio portrait of Sowcea Kinery [?] and Samuel Keryte, both wearing school uniforms. Keryte is definitely the student standing at right.

Note: The identification of Kinery is a guess based on interpreting the handwritten caption, and the fact that he arrived on the same day as Keryte. Kinery was 14 at arrival and Keryte was 16.

Studio portrait of Samuel Keryte wearing school uniform. 

Studio portrait of Samuel Keryte wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Samuel Keryte and James Seweyea.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes due to various reasons along with various escorts.

Note: The student referred to here as Maurice Walker is also known as Maurice Yellow Hair.