Siletz

Student information card of Joseph Adams, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on August 6, 1893 and departed on May 11, 1898.

Note: A relative of Joseph Adams has indicated that he was Applegate, Shasta, and Sixes River bands of the Siletz Confederation of Tribes.

Student information cards of Joseph Adams, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on August 6, 1893 and ultimately departed on May 11, 1898.

In school documentation Joseph Adams is also known as Joseph F. Adams.

Note: A relative of Joseph Adams has indicated that he was Applegate, Shasta, and Sixes River bands of…

Student file of Robert DePoe, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on August 6, 1893, graduated in 1897, and ultimately departed on June 28, 1900. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a trade/position record card, letters/correspondence, a…

Student information card of Robert DePoe, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on August 6, 1893 and departed on June 28, 1900. The information card indicates that DePoe had graduated in 1897, married Mary Hauser, and was living in Siletz, Oregon in 1913. 

Student file of John F. Brown, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 26, 1893, and departed on June 29, 1896. The file contains a student information card, a trade/position record card, a report after leaving, and a returned student survey that indicates Brown was working as a carpenter in Siletz, Oregon.

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Student information card of John F. Brown, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 26, 1893 and departed on June 29, 1896.

Student file of Archie Johnson, a member of the Coquelle Nation, who entered the school on August 9, 1894, and departed on September 23, 1898.  The file contains a student information card, correspondence, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a position card, and a report after leaving indicating that Johnson was…

Student information card of Archie Johnson, a member of the Coquelle Nation, who entered the school on August 9, 1894 and departed on September 23, 1898. The file indicates Johnson was living in Taft, Oregon in 1913 and Orton, Oregon in 1917.

Note: A relative of Archie Johnson has indicated that he was Coquelle on his mother's side and…

Student file of Sarah Pierre, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 9, 1898 and departed on July 1, 1901. The file contains a trade/position record card, a student information card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Pierre was working as a nurse in Portland, Oregon in 1911.

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Student information card of Sarah Pierre, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 9, 1898 and departed on July 1, 1901.

Progress card of Esther Reed, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 3, 1903.

Student file of Esther Reed, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 3, 1903 and departed on September 8, 1908. The file contains correspondence, a student information card, a returned student survey, former student response postcards, a news clipping, and a report after leaving indicating she was a housewife in Otis,…

Student information card of Esther Reed, a member of the Siletz Nation, who entered the school on October 3, 1903 and departed on September 8, 1908. The file indicates Reed was married and living in Otis, Oregon in 1913.

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

This program was distributed for the 1908 Commencement Exercises, which took place on Thursday, April 2nd. Inside features a portrait of Moses Friedman, the Superintendent, Francis E. Leupp, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Charles H. Dickson, the Supervisor-in Charge, as well as a portrait of the Class of 1908. Included is a full schedule…