Student file of Agnes, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880. The file contains a student information card.
Agnes


Student information card of Agnes (White Cow), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880.

Portrait of Agnes (White Cow) and Ernest (Knocks Off) posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds.
![First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879 First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%232.jpg?itok=ep1tLMr7)
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879
Note: This image is different from the more commonly seen one. Here there are only twelve people in the back row, not thirteen (it is not yet determined who is not present here). Sarah Mather and Charles Tackett are not included, and…
![First group of female students [version 1], 1879 First group of female students [version 1], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_012a.jpg?itok=inqzvuM7)
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
The…
![First group of female students [version 2], 1879 First group of female students [version 2], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0037.jpg?itok=1bkZ7aqY)
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.
![First group of female students [version 3], 1879 First group of female students [version 3], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%231.jpg?itok=oo4QV0uj)
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs that White Thunder would like his sister-in-law as his second wife, but she is not interested. She is currently a student at the Carlisle Indian School, but there are reports of her mother dying. Before she leaves the school to be with her mother, she'd like to know if she…