Betzinez, Jason

Student file of James Kawaykla, a member of the Apache Nation who entered the school on April 30, 1887 and departed on August 1, 1898. The file contains student information card, newspaper clippings, and a report after leaving, and news clippings regarding Kawaykla's involvement in a delegation of Fort Sill Apaches debating a removal to the…

Student file of Jason Betzinez, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887, and departed on May 5, 1897.  The file contains student information cards, a position card, correspondence, a returned student survey, a newspaper clipping, and a report after leaving indicating that, in 1910, Betzinez was working as a…

Student information card of Jason Betzinez, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887 and departed on May 5, 1897. The file indicates Betzinez was living in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1913 and Apache, Oklahoma in 1914.

The first page opened with the poem, " A Proverb," followed by Jemima Wheelock's (Oneida) report of "Our Wilmington Trip," about a group of students traveling to Delaware where they stayed with families before they headed to Philadelphia with Capt. Pratt and Miss Leverett.  They visited John Wannamaker's Store, the zoo, an iron factory and…

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform. 

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez (seated right), Caleb Kechjolay (seated left), Beatrice Morton (standing right), and Maggie Iahanetha (standing left), all wearing school uniforms.

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez, Effie Zaienah, and Maggie Iahanetha. Betzinez is wearing a school uniform. 

Studio portrait of three male students in school uniforms.

Note: A researcher has identified these students as, left to right: Jason Betzinez, Calvin Zhonne (known at the school as Calvin Zlomne) and Chappo Geronimo

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez. 

Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (standing at left) and Jason Betzinez (seated at right).

Studio portrait of Ernest Hogee (standing at left) and Jason Betzinez (seated at right).

Studio portrait of fourteen male students and nine female students. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society identifies them as from the Apache nation and gives a date of 1891 for the image. Previous catloging for this version also says they are Apache students but says there is a date of 16 January 1892 in the…

Studio portrait of twenty-three students, fourteen male and nine female students, identified in the caption as "Apache Group, 1891." 

Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola…

Studio portrait of Jason Betzinez. 

Correspondence regarding a request from Apache prisoners of war for the return of their children from the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the correspondence are various recommendations for the students as well as Richard Henry Pratt's philosophy in educating the Apache students and his views on interpreters.

Jason Betzinez writes to Richard Henry Pratt to share details about his life since leaving Carlisle and returning home to Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Betzinez writes of his work as a blacksmith, the effects of alcohol from the town of Lawton on the Apaches, and the work of former Carlisle students in the area to oppose whiskey and alcohol.

This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either requesting information about the school and its graduates, or inquiring to see if the school is still…