Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Bishop L. Shield (Sleeps Above), a member of the Gros Ventre Nation.
Shield, Bishop L.
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Student information card of Bishop L. Shield, a member of the Gros Ventre Nation, who entered the school on April 13, 1890 and died on July 30, 1890. Shield was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.
In school documentation Bishop L. Shield is also known as Sleeps Above.
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
![Twenty-two Gros Ventre and Assiniboine students [version 1], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73658.jpg?itok=aKt8YXgM "Twenty-two Gros Ventre and Assiniboine students [version 1], 1890")
Portrait of fifteen male students and seven female students posed on the steps of the academic building. They are identified in the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image as being "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle Apr. 1890." This photo was likely taken in May or June of that year.…
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Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
![Twenty-two Gros Ventre and Assiniboine students [version 2], 1890](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_080.jpg?itok=j1TAGjTW "Twenty-two Gros Ventre and Assiniboine students [version 2], 1890")
Portrait of twenty-two students-fifteen male and seven female students--posed on the steps of the academic building. The caption says that they are "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle, Apr. 1890." This photo was likely taken in May or June of that year.
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Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society