Burns, Robert

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Robert Burns Student File
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Student file of Robert Burns, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880, and departed on June 21, 1881.  The file contains a student information card, a newspaper clipping, and a report after leaving that indicates that he was married to former student Nellie Morrison and working as a lease clerk in…

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Robert Burns Student Information Card
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Student information card of Robert Burns, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and departed on June 21, 1881. The file indicates Burns was living in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1913.

Note: Burns married former student Nellie Morrison. 

 

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Nellie Morrison Student File
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Student file of Nellie Morrison, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 7, 1895, and departed on June 30, 1896. The file contains student information cards, and a report after leaving indicating Morrison was living in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1910. 

In school documentation Nellie Morrison's married name…

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The Indian Helper (Vol. 1, No. 25)
January 29, 1886

The first page opened with a poem titled "Who Was He?" asking students to come up with an answer for a prize of 25 cents. Also on the first page was a list of twelve steps for "How to Succeed." Page two included news briefs about the weather and keeping warm, President Cleveland’s activities, a West Virginia coal mine accident, sloppy marching…

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 26)
January 11, 1901

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 29).

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Pratt Responds to Reports on Returned Students
November 23, 1889 - December 6, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding statements made by a public official on returned students from the Carlisle Indian School and others. Pratt also includes a letter from T. W. Potter, former Issue Clerk at the Cantonment Agency, on the same issue. The issue concerned former students in polygamous…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration