Student information card of Lorenzo Bonito, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on February 2, 1884 and died on May 25, 1887 while attending the school. Bonito is buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.
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Student information card of Lorenzo Bonito, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on February 2, 1884 and died on May 25, 1887 while attending the school. Bonito is buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.
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January 24, 1884
Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, forwards a copy of a telegram to inform the Department of the Interior that Lieutenant West has departed San Carlos in charge of 52 children including 47 boys and five girls for Carlisle.
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May 29, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt reports on a proposed plan to bring the children currently being held in St. Augustine, Florida to be educated at the Carlisle Indian School. In addition, at the suggestion of Lieutenant Richards that he send Bonito, a student at Carlisle, to promote the school as an ambassador for the school among the Apaches in addition to…
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June 20, 1886
First Lieutenant Stephen C. Mills, the officer in charge of the Chiricahua Indian Prisoners at Fort Marion, Florida recommends sending Bonito, a student at the Carlisle Indian School and a member of the Apache Nation, to Fort Marion to discuss the benefits of sending their children to Carlisle or another Indian Training School.
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