Student file of Frank Conroy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and ultimately departed on July 29, 1890. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, letters/correspondence, and a report after leaving.…
Standing Bear, Victoria
![Frank Conroy Student File Frank Conroy Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b038_f1842_0016.jpg?itok=UwFcKV1w)
![Victoria Standing Bear Student File Victoria Standing Bear Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b062_f3143_0002_combined.jpg?itok=dl6CA817)
Student file of Victoria Standing Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886. The file contains a former student response postcard, a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating Bear was a housewife in LaCreek, South Dakota in 1910.
In school…
![Victoria Standing Bear Student Information Card Victoria Standing Bear Student Information Card](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1329_b006_c00b_0052.jpg?itok=pi2hSnO8)
Student information card of Victoria Standing Bear, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886. The file indicates Bear married Frank Conroy and was living Lacreek, South Dakota in 1913.
Note: This student was also known as Victoria S. Bear.
![Henry Horse Looking (Calls Relatives) Student File Henry Horse Looking (Calls Relatives) Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b037_f1787_0025.jpg?itok=U_DQmYvM)
Student file of Henry Horse Looking (Calls Relatives), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 14, 1883, and ultimately departed on June 7, 1897. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, former student response postcards, letters/…
![Harry Conroy Student File Harry Conroy Student File](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-ephemera/NARA_1327_b082_f3863_0036_COMBINED.jpg?itok=LpexgEmH)
Student file of Harry Conroy, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on December 9, 1910, and ultimately departed on September 10, 1913. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains a student information card, applications for enrollment, trade/position record cards, a progress/…
![The Indian Helper (Vol. 2, No. 20) The Indian Helper (Vol. 2, No. 20)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-pub/CCHS-IndianHelper_002_200001.jpg?itok=4YHE8rNV)
The first page featured the school Christmas greeting that included a drawing of the Man-on-the-band-stand that took up the entire front page of the newspaper. Page two opened with an article titled "Christmas" that described the Fourth of July and Christmas as national holidays, followed by articles that included news from the Pawnee Agency…
![The Indian Helper (Vol. 5, No. 19) The Indian Helper (Vol. 5, No. 19)](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-pub/IndianHelper_v05n19_Page_1.jpg?itok=mepm_1Yy)
The first page opened with a notice that there were no Indian Helper newspapers published for December 28 and January 3rd. A notice followed: “A Novel Christmas Present: Our Superintendent Made with his own Hands a tin Cup for Each Employee.” Next was a poem, by “E.G.“dated Dec. 25, ’89 titled “The School Poet Again Stirred” about…
![Standing Bear, Red Fish and five students [version 1], c.1884 Standing Bear, Red Fish and five students [version 1], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74286.jpg?itok=6iE_bY9x)
Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Standing Bear and Red Fish with three male students and two female students. The male students are probably Luther Standing Bear, Willard Standing Bear, and Henry Standing Bear. One of the female students is probably Victoria Standing Bear.
![Standing Bear, Red Fish and five students [version 2], c.1884 Standing Bear, Red Fish and five students [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_065a.jpg?itok=dNqX1eP7)
Studio portrait of visiting chiefs Standing Bear and Red Fish with three male students and two female students. The male students are probably Luther Standing Bear, Willard Standing Bear, and Henry Standing Bear. One of the female students is probably Victoria Standing Bear.
![Victoria Standing Bear, c.1884 Victoria Standing Bear, c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_042c.jpg?itok=MI6xf0OT)
Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear.
![Victoria Standing Bear and Martha Bordeaux, c.1884 Victoria Standing Bear and Martha Bordeaux, c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_034d.jpg?itok=_OXDmTtF)
Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear (left) and Martha Bordeaux (right).
![List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for June 1886 List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for June 1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0312_14162_0003.jpg?itok=MwqPgIIU)
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.
![Age of Students Being Sent Home in June 1886 Age of Students Being Sent Home in June 1886](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0313_14723_0003.jpg?itok=5wwtYZ2u)
Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.
![Agency Update on Former Students Living at the Pine Ridge Agency Agency Update on Former Students Living at the Pine Ridge Agency](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0811_00345_0004.jpg?itok=VgqBQSXX)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from George LeRoy Brown, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. In Brown's letter he provides an update and a character assessment on former Carlisle Indian School students he has met.