Damon, Charles S.

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Charles S. Damon Student File
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Student file of Charles S. Damon, a member of the Navajo Nation, who entered the school on October 21, 1882, and departed on July 2, 1891. The file contains a student information card, a former student response postcard, a trade/position record card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving that indicates Damon was working as a…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Charles S. Damon Student Information Card
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Student information card of Charles S. Damon, a member of the Navajo Nation, who entered the school on October 21, 1882 and departed on July 2, 1891. The file indicates Damon was living in Fort Defiance, Arizona in 1914.

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
The Red Man and Helper (Vol. 1, No. 28)
January 25, 1901

A description of this document is not currently available.

Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 31).

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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Twelve Navajo students (pose 1), 1882

Portrait of Richard Henry Pratt (seated on the bandstand) with one female Navajo student and eleven male students. The female student, Antoinette Williams, had arrived on December 5, 1881. She and Pratt are posed with a group of male Navajo students who had arrived on the day this photograph was taken, October 21, 1882.

The students are…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Twelve Navajo students (pose 2) [version 1], 1882

Portrait of eleven male students and one female student posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is sitting on the bandstand, behind the group.

The female student, Antoinette Williams, had arrived on December 5, 1881. The male students are a group of male Navajo students who arrived on October 21, 1882.…

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Twelve Navajo students (pose 2) [version 2], 1882

Portrait of eleven male students and one female students posed in front of the bandstand on the school grounds. Richard Henry Pratt is sitting on the bandstand, behind the group. They are a group of Navajo students who arrived on October 21, 1882.

They are, front row, seated, left to right: George Williams, Stailey Norcross, Antoinette…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Eleven Navajo students [version 1], 1883

Studio portrait of ten male students and one female student.

For explantion of the identification of the students in this image and the date see the Dickinson College copy of this image in Related Images.

The students are, seated in front, left to right - Charles Damon, George Williams. Seated, left to right - Manuelito…

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Eleven Navajo students [version 2], 1883

Studio portrait of ten male students and one female student.

The handwritten note reads: Students at Government School at Carlisle, Pa.

Based on enrollment information and a few other photographs of the individuals pictured, we believe the students are as follows:

Younger boys seated in front, left to right…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Charles Damon, Stailey Norcross, Wood Nashozey, and George S. Watchman, c.1884

Studio portrait of Charles Damon, Stailey Norcross, Wood Nashozey, and George S. Watchman. Damon was the youngest, and so is presumably the student at back left wearing a school uniform. Norcross is standing at right, Watchman is probably seated at left and Nashozey is probably seated at right. 

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 1], c.1891

Portrait of a baseball team with "Indians" on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center.

The handwritten caption for the Cumberland County Historical Society version of this images identifies them as the Union Reserve baseball team. The sitters are identified in that image as: back row, Frank Everett and Charles…

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Union Reserve Baseball Team [version 2], c.1891

Portrait of a baseball team with "Indians" on the front of their uniforms, with white coach or teacher in center. The handwritten caption in the album identifies them as the Union Reserve baseball team. 

The caption written below the image identifies the sitters as: back row, Frank Everett and Charles Damon; middle row, Josiah…

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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for June 1888
June 22, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of the Indian Affairs of the 60 students who are entitled to return to their home at the end of the school term due to the expiration of their enrollment or sickness.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Take Party of Navajo Students to Carlisle
January 6, 1892

David L. Shipley, U.S. Indian Agent for the Navajo Agency, notes that since former student Charles Damon returned home, Damon has visited the Agency a school a number of times discussing the Carlisle Indian School. As a result a number of boys have indicated a desire to enroll at Carlisle.

As a result, Shipley requests permission to take…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration