Arapaho (Northern)

Note: As of June 2018, the remains of Hayes (Little Plume) have been disinterred and repatriated. They were previously interred in plot E-15.

Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Hayes (Little Plume), a member of the Arapaho Nation.

Note: As of August 2017, the remains of Horace (Horse) have been disinterred and repatriated. They were previously interred in plot E-16.

Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Horace (Horse), a member of the Arapaho Nation.

Note: As of August 2017, the remains of Dickens (Little Chief) have been disinterred and repatriated. They were previously interred in plot E-04.

Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Dickens (Little Chief), a member of the Arapaho Nation.

Student information card of Mollie Naalta (here Naatta), a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on June 17, 1884.

Progress card of Allie Bearing, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903.

Student file of Allie Bearing, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on March 25, 1908. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that Bearing married Ralph White Plume and was a housewife in Wind River, Wyoming in 1911.

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Student information card of Allie Bearing, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on March 25, 1908. The file indicates Bearing married Ralph W. Plume and was living in Wind River, Wyoming in 1913.

Progress card of Dorcas Earle (here Earle Dorcas), a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903.

Student file of Dorcas R. Earle, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on June 1, 1908. The file contains student information cards, a former student response postcard, a returned student survey, and report after leaving indicating that Earle was housekeeping for her family in Wind River, Wyoming…

Student information card of Dorcas Earle, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on June 1, 1908. The file indicates Earle was married and living in Wind River, Wyoming and in Fort Washakie, Wyoming in 1913.

Progress card of Susan Littleshield, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903.

Student file of Susan Littleshield, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on June 1, 1908. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and report after leaving indicating that Littleshield married Joseph L. Brown and was a housewife in Fort Washakie, Wyoming in 1911.…

Student information card of Susan Littleshield (here Little Shield), a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on June 10, 1903 and departed on June 1, 1908. The file indicates Littleshield was married and living in Fort Washakie, Wyoming in 1913.

Student file of Theresa Felter, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1909 and departed on June 11, 1913. The file contains a student information card, medical/physical records, an application for enrollment, correspondence, outing evaluations, a progress/conduct card, and an outing record. The file indicates…

Studio portrait of eleven unidentified male students in school uniforms. 

The caption here identifies them as being Northern Arapaho.

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapaho who arrived in March 1881.

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students who…

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapahoes who arrived in March 1881. 

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students…

Studio portrait of five Arapho chiefs with their interpeter. 

Based on comparison with other photographs, the Cumberland County Historical Society has identifeid these chiefs as: Iron Chief (back row left), Sharp Nose (back row right), Black Coal (front row center), and Little Wolf (front row right). The interpreter and the chief at…

Studio portrait of Iron Chief. 

The later pencil caption below the original cursive caption was written by Cumberland County Historical Society staff. 

Studio portrait of Little Wolf, a visiting chief.

Studio portrait of Little Wolf, a visiting chief.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: PA-CH2-077c and BS-CH-002. 

A series of twenty-three letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.