Piegan (Blackfeet)

Student information card of Wilbur Anderson, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1914 and ultimately departed on September 6, 1918. The file indicates Anderson was transferred to the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas upon the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.

Student file of Aloysius Pepion, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1914 and ultimately departed on June 12, 1917. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, outing evaluations, a certificate of promotion, an outing record, an…

Student information card of Aloysius Pepion, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1914 and ultimately departed on June 12, 1917.

Student information card of Carl Schildt, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on October 5, 1916 and departed on October 3, 1917.

Student information card of Charles Ell, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on October 5, 1916 and departed on August 29, 1918. The file indicates Ell was transferred to the Chemawa Indian School in Salem, Oregon upon the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.

Student information card of Dennis Juneau, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on October 5, 1916 and departed on October 1, 1917.

Student information card of Dennis Juneau, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, who entered the school on October 5, 1916 and departed on October 1, 1917.

Studio portrait of six unidentified male students. 

Previous cataloging identifies them as members of the Blackfoot nation, presumably from information in the caption. 

Studio portrait of William Ellis wearing school uniform.

Portrait of male and female students posed on the steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption on the Cumberland County Historical Society copy of this image states that they are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." Previous cataloging for this…

Portrait of male and female students posed on steps of a building on the school grounds, with a white man standing at left. The caption says that these are "Piegan from Blackfeet Agency, Montana, entered Carlisle in November 1889 and March 1890." 

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives copy of this image says that the…

Studio portrait of Richard Sanderville, William Leighton, and John Frost. Two are wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of twelve male students. Caption information for the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image states that they are from the Piegan nation and entered on March 26, 1890. 

Studio portrait of J. Grover Ground. 

Studio portrait of eight Piegan chiefs. 

The January 8, 1892 issue of the  Indian Helper (vol. 7 no. 17) reports that these chiefs had visited the school the previous week.

The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image. One of those copies identifies the chiefs as Running Crane, Little Dog, White…

Studio portrait of Joseph Spaniard (also known as Joe Spanish).