Big Road, Newton

Student information card of Newton Big Road, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886.

Student information card of Newton Big Road, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 30, 1882 and departed on June 22, 1886.

Note: Although this card indicates that Big Road reentered the school on September 12, 1885, other records show that he had first enrolled at Carlisle on November 30, 1882.

These materials include a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 13 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Pine Ridge Agency.

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.

Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.

A series of twenty nine letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from George LeRoy Brown, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. In Brown's letter he provides an update and a character assessment on former Carlisle Indian School students he has met.