Student file of Harry Kohpay, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on June 9, 1882, graduated in 1891, and ultimately departed on June 13, 1895. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, news clippings, returned student surveys, a report after leaving…
Kohpay, Harry
![Harry Kohpay (Wah-she-wah-hah) Student File Harry Kohpay (Wah-she-wah-hah) Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b134_f5255_0023.jpg?itok=aydzlr53)
![Harry Kohpay Student Information Card Harry Kohpay Student Information Card](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1329_b001_c00k_0023.jpg?itok=wF6lAfHT)
Student information card of Harry Kohpay, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on June 9, 1888 and departed on June 13, 1895. The information card indicates that Kohpay graduated in 1891, studied tailoring, and was living in Pawhuska, Oklahoma in 1913.
Note: Other records show that Kohpay originally enrolled at the…
![James Holstein Student File James Holstein Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b146_f5664_0024.jpg?itok=uSnhahVA)
Student file of James Holstein, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 8, 1911 and ultimately graduated in 1918, departing on June 8, 1918. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, physical records, an…
![Elsie Kohpay Student File Elsie Kohpay Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b102_f4391_0052.jpg?itok=4t-WYgvI)
Student file of Elsie Kohpay, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on October 18, 1912, and departed on June 1, 1915. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, physical records, correspondence related to financial transactions and Kohpay's enrollment at the school, and a financial aid form.
…![Elsie Kohpay Student Information Card Elsie Kohpay Student Information Card](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1329_b007_c00k_0068.jpg?itok=PQxF7Xj6)
Student information card of Elsie Kohpay, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on October 18, 1912 and ultimately departed on June 1, 1915.
![Harry Kohpay, Jr. Student File Harry Kohpay, Jr. Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b147_f5669_0008.jpg?itok=5tBmXt9S)
Student file of Harry Kohpay, Jr., a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1915, graduated in 1918, and departed on June 7, 1918. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, a vacation request form, a certificate of transfer, Kohpay's biographical essay from his senior year, and financial…
![Virgil Simpkins Student File Virgil Simpkins Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b131_f5163_0001combined.jpg?itok=4TfYdUqi)
Student file of Virgil Simpkins, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on September 4, 1917 and departed on June 8, 1918. The file contains a student information card, a certificate of promotion, a vacation request form, financial transactions, an application for enrollment, and correspondence.
![Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888 Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74444.jpg?itok=TOiTV_qW)
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock, (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), all wearing baseball uniforms with "YA" on the front of the shirts.
![Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 2], c.1888 Four young men in baseball uniforms [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_086c.jpg?itok=EOPPMoCd)
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), in baseball uniforms with "YA" on their shirts.
![Four young men in baseball uniforms, c.1889 Four young men in baseball uniforms, c.1889](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73517.jpg?itok=lhMHYdbV)
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay, Lyman Kennedy, Morgan Toprock, and Ralph Naltuey, all wearing baseball uniforms with variations of "YA" on the front.
![Harry Kohpay, c.1889 Harry Kohpay, c.1889](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74443.jpg?itok=Dsap8Wd6)
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay in uniform (probably band uniform) holding drum sticks.
![Harry Kohpay, Robert Penn, and Paul Lovejoy, c.1890 Harry Kohpay, Robert Penn, and Paul Lovejoy, c.1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2370%20024_0.jpg?itok=LjhCC0eN)
Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay, Robert Penn, and Paul Lovejoy, all wearing athletic attire and posing with baseball equipment.
Note: The identificaiton of Robert Penn is preliminary.
![Graduating Class of 1891, 1891 Graduating Class of 1891, 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0028.jpg?itok=aFKAFwqb)
Studio portrait of one female and ten male students, the graduating class of 1891.
They are, back row, left to right: Robert Matthews (seated), Martin Archiquette, John Tyler, William Froman, Charles E. Dagenett; middle row, seated, left to right: Henry Standing Bear, Etta Robertson, Levi St. Cyr, Harry Kohpay; front row, seated,…
![Thirteen male Osage students [version 1], 1891 Thirteen male Osage students [version 1], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74354.jpg?itok=vCzFKpy3)
Studio photo of thirteen male students. They are identified in the caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image as being "Osage group, 1891."
A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified the students in their copy of this image as, top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos…
![Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891 Thirteen male Osage students [version 2], 1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_063a.jpg?itok=-tMIDMgN)
Studio photo of thirteen male students, identified in the caption as being "Osage group, 1891.
A researcher at the Cumberland County Historical Society identified as the students as:
Top row, left to right: Claude Smith, Frank Penn, Amos Osage, Daniel McDougan.
Middle row, left to right: Elias Stanton, Harry…
![Union Reserve Baseball Team, c.1891 Union Reserve Baseball Team, c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_026.jpg?itok=rMF_BQR3)
Portrait of the school's Union Reserve baseball team, some in uniforms.
The caption identifies the sitters as: top row (l to r), Joseph Harris, Jonas Place, Paul Lovejoy, Joseph Hamilton, Harry Hutchinson, and David Turkey; middle row (l to r), Felix Eagle Feather, John Baptiste, Fred Big Horse, and George Baker; front row (l to r…
![Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 1], c.1891 Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 1], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73856.jpg?itok=pWSVJLv-)
Portrait of a baseball team with "Indians" on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center.
The handwritten caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this images identifies them as the Union Reserve baseball team. The sitters are identified in that image as: back row, Frank Everett and Charles…
![Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 2], c.1891 Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 2], c.1891](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_025.jpg?itok=P_Yt-so-)
Portrait of a baseball team with "Indians" on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center. The handwritten caption in the album identifies them as the Union Reserve baseball team.
The caption written below the image identifies the sitters as: back row, Frank Everett and Charles Damon; middle row, Josiah…
![Group of Osage students and chiefs, c.1895 Group of Osage students and chiefs, c.1895](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH3_054b.jpg?itok=MsNcNcNe)
Studio portrait of eleven male students, three Native American men, and one white man. The caption identifies them as from the Osage nation.
A researcher gave the Cumberland County Historical Society partial identifications for the sitters in this photo. According to this information, back row, left to right: Unidentified,…
![Names of Students Brought to Carlisle by Townsend Names of Students Brought to Carlisle by Townsend](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0089_14065_0002.jpg?itok=67awWBUL)
Complying with Indian Office orders, Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students brought to the Carlisle Indian School by Special Agent E. B. Townsend for the fall of 1882. Students were from the Osage, Kaw, and Nez Perce Nations.
![Report on the Transfer of Students from the Martinsburg Indian School to Carlisle Report on the Transfer of Students from the Martinsburg Indian School to Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0469_15964_0002.jpg?itok=yQzHQEtN)
Richard Henry Pratt provides an account of transferring students from the Martinsburg Indian School to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he and P. H. Bridenbaugh told the group of students of the benefit of staying in the East and continuing their education but that it was up to them if they wanted to stay. After a discussion in…
![Requests by Harry Kohpay Regarding His Daughters Requests by Harry Kohpay Regarding His Daughters](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b027_f21_37437_0010.jpg?itok=SZ2cnxW2)
These materials include correspondence regarding two requests by Harry Kohpay regarding his daughters. The first was to have Elsie Kohpay accompany Harry back home following the 1914 commencement, where Harry spoke. The second was to gain permission for Goldie Houser, a stepdaughter of Harry Kohpay, to enroll at Carlisle as a white student.…
![1917 Commencement Program, The Continental Congress 1917 Commencement Program, The Continental Congress](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/CIS-I-0075.jpg?itok=6AoWrSdY)
This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…
![List of 1918 Seniors List of 1918 Seniors](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b003_f19_9739_0003.jpg?itok=NUw6Zsys)
This document contains a list of the senior class of 1918 expected to graduate at the end of the school year.