Student information card of Gertrude Spotted Tail (here Gertrude S. Tail), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882, and departed on August 31, 1883.
Student information card of Gertrude Spotted Tail (here Gertrude S. Tail), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882, and departed on August 31, 1883.
Student information card of Gertrude Spotted Tail, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on August 31, 1883. She died while on outing, and was buried in Byberry Quaker Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
In school documentation Gertrude Spotted Tail is also known as Stands and Laugh and…
Richard Henry Pratt reports on the death of Gertrude Spotted Tail while living in Andalusia, Pennsylvania with a Carlisle Indian School teacher during the summer. Pratt also notes the health and death differences between the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agency students.
Pratt concludes with a request for authority to pay for the expense of…