Student file of Lester Rising Bear, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on February 3, 1881 and departed on June 17, 1884. The file contains a report after leaving. The file indicates Rising Bear was a farmer in Calumet, Oklahoma in 1910.
In school documentation Lester Rising Bear is also known as Lester, Leslie Rising Bear, Leslie, and Black Otter. It appears that Rising Bear entered the school under the name Leslie and while he was at the school changed his name to Lester Rising Bear.
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National Archives and Records Administration
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RG 75, Series 1327, box 4, folder 146