Standing Bear, Victoria

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.…

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.

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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.

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, correspondence…

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 student information cards, applications for enrollment, trade/position record cards, a progress/…

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 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…

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.  

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.

Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear. 

Studio portrait of Victoria Standing Bear (left) and Martha Bordeaux (right). 

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.

Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.

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.