Student file of Charles Istee, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887, and departed on November 7, 1895. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that Istee was farming in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, in 1910.
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Student information card of Charles Istee, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887 and departed on November 7, 1895. The file indicates Istee was living in Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1913.
![Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74341.jpg?itok=X9nOSVDK "Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?], c.1888")
Studio portrait of Charles Istee, Humphrey Escharzay, and Thomas Pelcoya [?]; two are wearing school uniforms.
Note: The identification of Thomas Pelcoya is preliminary. Previously cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the name "Thomas," and Thomas Pelcoya is the only male Apache student who attended at the same time…
![Fifteen Apache male students [version 1], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_73281.jpg?itok=jo7rd4zH "Fifteen Apache male students [version 1], c.1888")
Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all…
![Fifteen Apache male students [version 2], c.1888](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/13-3-_02.jpg?itok=0SiupCmc "Fifteen Apache male students [version 2], c.1888")
Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches.
Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they…
Studio portrait of Susie Nachekea (standing at left), Charles Istee (standing at rear), and Gail Marko (seated at right).
Studio portrait of Charles Istee, Vincent Natalish, and Gail Marko. Two are wearing school uniforms.
Correspondence regarding a request from Apache prisoners of war for the return of their children from the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the correspondence are various recommendations for the students as well as Richard Henry Pratt's philosophy in educating the Apache students and his views on interpreters.
Richard Henry Pratt provides Daniel M. Browning of the decisions of the Apache students at the Carlisle Indian School relative to returning to their homes or staying at Carlisle.