Agnes

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Agnes (White Cow) Student File

Agnes (White Cow) Student File
Date of Entry:

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. 

In school documentation Agnes is also known as White Cow.

 

Nation:
Sioux
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration

Agnes (White Cow) Student Information Card

Agnes (White Cow) Student Information Card
Date of Entry:

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.

Nation:
Sioux
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration

First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879

First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879

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…

Nation:
Sioux
Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society

First group of female students [version 1], 1879

First group of female students [version 1], 1879

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…

Nation:
Sioux
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society

First group of female students [version 2], 1879

First group of female students [version 2], 1879

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. 

Nation:
Sioux
Format:
Stereograph
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

First group of female students [version 3], 1879

First group of female students [version 3], 1879

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.

Nation:
Sioux
Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society

Agnes (White Cow) and Ernest (Knocks Off), c.1879

Agnes (White Cow) and Ernest (Knocks Off), c.1879

Portrait of Agnes (White Cow) and Ernest (Knocks Off) posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds.

Nation:
Sioux
Format:
Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society

Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Rosebud Agency, 1879

black and white scan of front of letter
September 30, 1879

Descriptive Statement of young people being sent to the Carlisle Indian School from Rosebud Agency, as sent by the Rosebud Indian Agent Cicero Newell. 

 

Format:
Reports
Topics:
Enrollment Lists
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Student Enrollment Lists
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration

White Thunder's Desire to Marry his Sister-In-Law, a Student at the School

White Thunder's Desire to Marry his Sister-In-Law, a Student at the School
June 21, 1880

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…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Requests from Families to Send Students Home, Request to Remain Enrolled
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
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