Student information card of Emma (Plenty Aunt), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880.
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Student information card of Emma, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 6, 1879 and departed on June 23, 1880.
In school documentation Emma is also known as Plenty Aunt, Plenty Hunt, and To-we-chu-Otah.
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![First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%232.jpg?itok=ep1tLMr7 "First Group of Female Students [Smaller Group], 1879")
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879
Note: This image is different from the more commonly seen one. Here there are only twelve people in the back row, not thirteen (it is not yet determined who is not present here). Sarah Mather and Charles Tackett are not included…
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Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
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Cumberland County Historical Society
![First group of female students [version 1], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_012a.jpg?itok=inqzvuM7 "First group of female students [version 1], 1879")
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at right.
This image appears in John N. Choate's Souvenir of the Carlisle Indian School (Carlisle, PA: J. N. Choate, 1902).
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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
![First group of female students [version 2], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0037.jpg?itok=1bkZ7aqY "First group of female students [version 2], 1879")
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.
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Stereograph
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
![First group of female students [version 3], 1879](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/00309B%231.jpg?itok=oo4QV0uj "First group of female students [version 3], 1879")
Group portrait of the first female students, taken on the morning after their arrival on October 6, 1879. Matron Sarah Mather is standing at left and interpreter Charles Tackett is standing at left.
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Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Group portrait of one female and three male students in front of a building on the school grounds. Annotations on the image state they were relatives of Black Crow. Based on that information they are probably Emma (Plenty Aunt), Rufus (Strikes the Enemy), Theron Two Strike, and Arthur Two Strike.
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Glass Plate Negative, Stereograph
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Cumberland County Historical Society
September 30, 1879
Descriptive Statement of young people being sent to the Carlisle Indian School from Rosebud Agency, as sent by the Rosebud Indian Agent Cicero Newell.
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June 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list to the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affair of the students to be returned home at the request of Sioux chiefs. Assistant matron Zoe McKenzie will accompany them, particularly to care for Thomas.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration