Student file of Amanda Brown, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on July 31, 1899 and departed on September 17, 1902. The file contains a news clipping a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating she was working as a stenographer and clerk in Sisseton,...

Student information card of Amos La Frambois, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 6, 1879 and died on November 26, 1879. La Frambois was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds

Progress card of Andrew Thompson, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 30, 1911.

Note: Although this card shows an arrival date of October 31, the admissions ledger and his file suggest that he actually arrived on October 30.

Student file of Christina Bailly, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on September 16, 1898 and departed on June 6, 1899. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating she was a housewife in Sisseton, South Dakota...

Progress card of David Redthunder, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on February 10, 1909.

Student information cards of Dessie Prescott, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 6, 1880 and ultimately departed on May 22, 1888.

Studio portrait of Dessie Prescott (seated far left), Jennie Lawrence (seated front left), Nellie Robertson (standing back right), and Katie La Croix (seated far right) with teacher Sarah Mather (seated in center). The students are all wearing school uniforms and holding dolls. 

The caption reads: Sun Dance, Indian Day, Chautauqua, Devils Lake, N. Dak.

The printed note on the reverse side reads: A. No. 977. American Import Co., Publishers, Minnesapolis, U.S.A. Made in Germany.

The reveside side contains a...

Student information card of Dora La Belle, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on July 31, 1899 and departed on August 29, 1907. The information card indicates that La Belle graduated in 1907, studied dressmaking, married Lawrence Mitchell, and was living in Wahpeton, North...

Page one had a report on a bill that would “increase educational privileges and establish industrial schools for the benefit of youth belonging to such nomadic Indian tribes as have educational treaty claims upon the United States.” It also talked about the creation of the Carlisle Industrial...

Student file of Edith Bailly, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on September 16, 1898 and departed on June 6, 1899. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, a photograph, correspondence, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Bailly...