Student file of Ralph Iron Eagle Feather, a member of the Sioux Nation. No entrance or departure dates are given. The file contains a returned student survey, a news clipping, and a report after leaving that indicates he was working as a carpenter, painter, and wheelwright in Cut Meat, South Dakota in 1911. Other records show he enrolled at the…
Eagle Feather, Ralph
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Student file of Fred Big Horse (Big Horse), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on November 14, 1883 and ultimately graduated in 1893 and departed on March 6, 1893. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, a returned student survey,…
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Student information card of Lydia Biddle Eagle Feather, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1886 and ultimately departed on June 21, 1897.
Note: Lydia was the daughter of students Ralph Iron Eagle Feather and Julia Iron Eagle Feather (previously known as Julia Good Voice). Her first "enrollment" at the age…
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Student information cards of Lydia Biddle Eagle Feather, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1886 and ultimately departed on June 21, 1897.
Note: Lydia was the daughter of students Ralph Iron Eagle Feather and Julia Iron Eagle Feather (previously known as Julia Good Voice). Her first "enrollment" at the…
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May 1882
The first article is Titled “Communicated” by Michael Burns (Apache). It discusses the opportunities Indians have to access education. On the same page Libbie Standing (Cheyenne) wrote about Indians fighting and Joe Big Wolf wrote his father challenging him to speak English better than his son. On Page two Ralph Eagle Feather (Sioux) talked…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
July 28, 1882 - August 11, 1882
Ralph Iron Eagle Feather writes to Richard Henry Pratt discussing how there is now work for returned students at the Rosebud Agency. In Pratt's comments to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs he notes that the Agent at Pine Ridge has but all of the returned students to work and a similar initiative should be implemented at Rosebud.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 21, 1883 - November 27, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from former Carlisle Indian School student Ralph Eagle Feather regarding his grandfather who left the Rosebud Agency under the care of a former U.S. Indian Agent. Eagle Feather requests help in returning his grandfather to the Agency as they have received word that he is on exhibition at a museum…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 5, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter concerning Ralph Eagle Feather. Pratt provides the history of Eagle Feather and notes that he would be quite willing to find Eagle Feather farm employment but that if he is willing to leave the reservation he would be able to find work as a carpenter in the West.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 26, 1891 - January 4, 1892
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.
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Letters/Correspondence
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