Onondaga

Studio portrait of Elizabeth Day and Katie Day, both wearing school uniforms. 

Studio portrait of Lyman Kennedy wearing partial school uniform.

Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock, (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), all wearing baseball uniforms with "YA" on the front of the shirts. 

Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay (back left), Lyman Kennedy (back right), Morgan Toprock (front left), and Ralph Naltuey (front right), in baseball uniforms with "YA" on their shirts.

Studio portrait of Harry Kohpay, Lyman Kennedy, Morgan Toprock, and Ralph Naltuey, all wearing baseball uniforms with variations of "YA" on the front. 

Studio portrait of Luther Dah-hah (right) and Lyman Kennedy (left), both probably wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Mary Johnson.

Note: There are two students named Mary Johnson. This is probably the Mary Johnson from the Stockbridge nation who arrived in 1888 when she was 15 years old and departed in 1892. The other Mary Johnson was from the Onondaga nation, arrived in November 1883 and departed in June 1884. No age was given for…

Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.

Studio portrait of Florence George.

Studio portrait of Willie Schanandore.

Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.

Studio portrait of Reuben Jones.

Studio portrait of Reuben Jones. 

View of George E. Thomas in his football uniform around 1905.

Part of a scrapbook compiled by William Winneshiek (Winnebago), who wrote the caption: Carlisle Graduate 1910, World War Veteran, Football Coach Uni. of Ariz. 

Lyons . . . (R.H.B.) (Chippewa) Captain Football Team 1909

Group portrait of ten male students wearing costumes. They are the "Soldiers' Chorus," characters in the performance of the play, "The Captain of Plymouth," produced at the school from March 29-March 31, 1909. 

The program for the play lists twelve members of the Soldiers' Chorus, only ten of whom are pictured here. The students…

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1910. They are identified in a label attached below the photo. They are: 1) Margaret B. Burd 2) Stella Bear 3) Stacey Beck Hardy 4) John Bastian 5) Inex Brown 6) Johnson Enos 7) Louis George 8) Adeline Greenbrier 9) Carlyle G…

This image of Isaac Lyon as a Right Guard for the Carlisle Football team appeared in the New York Herald on October 1, 1911 as part of a feature about his death, which was suspected to be caused by his "witch" wife, Lillian Bigknife.

Studio portrait of a large group of seated and standing male and female students, identified as the graduating class of 1912. A female student in the front row is holding a banner reading "Loyalty 1912." The students are identified in the attached label as: 1) Mary J. Greene 2) Ella Johnson 3) Louise K. Loudbear 4) Anna Melton 5) Margaret La…

Cora Belle Martin (front row, center) with her grandmother, mother, and sisters at home around 1917, before she went to the Carlisle Indian School.

Portrait of six male students in uniform, two holding flags. 

This print has annotations with the students' names. The photograph is also included on page 35 of the Yearbook of the Carlisle Indian School, 1918. That caption reads: "Color Sergeants. Charles Sutton (American flag): Alex Jorden (Carlisle Standard of red…

Julia E. Remington inquires if the Carlisle Indian School has room for a member of the Onondaga Nation. Pratt notes when forwarding the letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that due to limited appropriations the father of the prospective student should be required to pay for travel expenses.

Writing to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Richard Henry Pratt forwards a request for the return of Onondaga children currently enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt provides context to the request for the return of the children and determines that it might be best to return the students at their parents expense.

Petition for the return of James Thomas, Matilda Thomas, and Mary Johnson from the Carlisle Indian School. The petitioners claim that the children were sent to Carlisle under the false pretense that the school was a school for white children that would allow their children to learn English. The petitioners further claim that Richard Henry Pratt…

Richard Henry Pratt answers a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Hiram Price, regarding students from the Onondaga Nation and a disconnect regarding the status of R. H. Gardner as an Agent in New York. Pratt also encloses a letter from Julia E. Remington regarding sending home Onondaga students on vacation and their return to…