Student information card of John Primaux, a member of the Ponca Nation, who entered the school on October 27, 1879 and departed on October 21, 1884.
Student information card of John Primaux, a member of the Ponca Nation, who entered the school on October 27, 1879 and departed on October 21, 1884.
Student information cards of Lydia Harrington, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and ultimately departed on May 11, 1892. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered.
In school documentation Lydia Harrington is also known as Lydia Big Nose.
Student information cards of Jennie Conners, a member of the Seminole Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and ultimately departed on February 6, 1891.
Student file of Kate Stocker, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 21, 1886 and departed on September 25, 1895. The file contains a student information card, a letter, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Stocker was doing bead work in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1910.
In school…
The first page opened with a poem “Cherries Are Ripe,” from Youth’s Companion, followed by a story titled “Sebastian’s Opportunity” about the training of a painter named Sebastian Gomez, a.k.a. “The mulatto of Murillo.” Page two featured a piece called "In Vacation," in which the Man-On-The-Band-Stand invited students to share their…