Proposal to Send Navajo POW Children to Carlisle

Date
May 17, 1882

Lieutenant General P. H. Sheridan writes that 21 Navajo women and children have been taken prisoner and are being held at Fort Wingate. He notes that General Pope proposes sending the children to the Carlisle Indian School.

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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Entry 91, box 78, 1882-#9358
Proposal to Send Navajo POW Children to Carlisle