Student file of Edward Brown, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on August 12, 1887 and departed July 4, 1893. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey and a report after leaving. The file indicates Edward attended the Genoa school in Nebraska and was living in Pine Ridge, South Dakota in 1911.…
Brown, Edward


Student information card of Edward Brown (Eli Minica), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on August 12, 1887 and departed on July 4, 1893. The file indicates Brown was living in Pine Ridge, South Dakota in 1913.

These materials include correspondence related to the enrollment of Edward Woods. Woods, orphaned as a child, spent a number of years drifting across the United States before ending up in Baltimore, where he was picked up as a vagrant and taken in by the Federated Charities of Baltimore. C.V. Stinchecum, the Assistant Chief of the Education…

These materials include postcards sent to female students attending the Carlisle Indian School. These postcards were confiscated by school officials who believed that their subject matter was inappropriate for their recipients. The confiscation was done "in accordance with Section 156 of the Rules for the Indian Service." The confiscated cards…