Student file of Charles Martin, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on February 11, 1884, and departed on June 14, 1887. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a position card, and a report after leaving indicating that Martin was working as a…
Martin, Henry
Student information card of Charles Martin, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on February 11, 1884 and departed on June 14, 1887. The file indicates Martin was living in Beaulieu, Minnesota in 1913.
Henry Martin writes the Bureau of Indian Affairs to have his son Charles Martin sent home from the Carlisle Indian School. Richard Henry Pratt responds that Charles Martin came to the school in 1884 on a five year term and is doing well and expresses no desire to return home.
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding a letter from Henry Martin. Pratt notes that the letter from Martin was not enclosed.
Henry Martin requests the return of his son Charles Martin from the Carlisle Indian School due to the health of other Chippewa students at Carlisle. The interpreter writing the letter, J. A. Gilfillian, adds that he believes that because half of the students he brought to Carlisle have died that it has caused lots of consternation among parents…