Student information card of Frankie Bear, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on October 22, 1883 and departed on January 3, 1884. The file indicates that Bear transferred to the Lincoln Institute.

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Student information card of Frankie Bear, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on October 22, 1883 and departed on January 3, 1884. The file indicates that Bear transferred to the Lincoln Institute.
Student information card of Frankie Bear, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on October 22, 1883 and departed on January 3, 1884. The file indicates that Bear was transferred to the Lincoln Institute, where he died.
The first page opens with a poem titled “"Health Alphabet" listing health advice, A-Z followed by a description of horse grooming titled "George Washington's Horse." Page two opens with an article titled "Silver" that admonished Indian students to fight against the…
Portrait of twenty-four male students upon arrival. The Cumberland County Historical Society's cataloging identifies them as from the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Comanche, Pawnee, and Nez Perce nations and that the photo was taken on the date of their arrival, October 22, 1883. Twenty-three male students arrived on that date from those nations.
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These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statements of Pupils regarding 27 children transferred to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Carlisle Indian School. Those children, from a variety of Nations, had previously been sent to Carlisle.