Order to Recruit Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Students

Date
August 22, 1879

Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. A. Hayt instructs the Acting Commissioner to allow Richard Henry Pratt to select 70 students from Sioux Nations and 30 from the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Nations.

Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry 79, "Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-80."

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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, M234, roll 481, frames 813-814
Order to Recruit Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Students