Student information card of Nathan (Ear), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on August 21, 1880.
Ear

![Four male Sioux students [version 1], c.1879 Four male Sioux students [version 1], c.1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/Potamkin%20%2326%20%28Choate%20%2332%29%20Full%20043.jpg?itok=vjsGyGAr)
Four male students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. They are Joe Taylor, Dennis (Strikes First), Daniel Milk (Warrior), and Nathan (Ear).
![Four male Sioux students [version 2], c.1879 Four male Sioux students [version 2], c.1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_sg0319.jpg?itok=PhsOmRkq)
Four male students posed on the bandstand on the school grounds. They are Joe Taylor, Dennis (Strikes First), Daniel Milk (Warrior), and Nathan (Ear).
![Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880 Five young male Sioux students [version 1], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73375.jpg?itok=PILV2eRk)
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.
![Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880 Five young male Sioux students [version 2], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH1_021c.jpg?itok=-PTl0AAH)
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms
Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image: PA-CH1-021c, 10-B-07.1-.4,…
![Five young male Sioux students [version 3], c.1880 Five young male Sioux students [version 3], c.1880](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/0321.f.0006_alt.jpg?itok=VFk7X_H7)
Studio portrait of (back row, left to right): David (Kills Without Wounding), Nathan (Ear), Pollock Spotted Tail; and (front row, left to right): Marshall (Marshall Bad Milk), and Hugh (Running Horse). All are wearing school uniforms.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a report on the health of several Rosebud Sioux students. He informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that Thigh's son is suffering from tapeworm, and Pratt will send him home if he's still sick when Reverend Robinson, a missionary from Rosebud who's visiting the school, returns to the agency. Kills…

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he is sending Pine Ridge Sioux students Henry Thigh, Nathan, and Andrew home, escorted by Reverend Robinson, immediately because their health is so poor that they may die at the school before the Commissioner approves their transfer. Pratt adds that the Carlisle Indian School…