Left Hand, Grant

Student file of U. S. Grant (Grant Lefthand). No entrance or departure dates are given, and no Nation is given. The file contains a returned student survey and a report after leaving indicating that Grant was married to Kate Stalker and working as a clerk in an Indian Trader store in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1911.

Note: This person was…

Student information card of U. S. Grant, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on October 27, 1879 and departed on June 21, 1881. The file indicates Grant was living in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1913.

Student file of Kate Stocker, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 21, 1886 and departed on September 25, 1895. The file contains a student information card, a letter/correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Stocker was doing bead work in Darlington, Oklahoma in 1910.

Student information card of Kate Stocker, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on September 21, 1886 and departed on September 25, 1895.

The first page opened with a poem titled "Spring,” followed by "How a Pawnee Got Ahead of a Cheyenne Chief: A Story as told by one of our Boys," in which a U.S. congressman’s position was chastised using an analogy of a Cheyenne-Pawnee skirmish. There is also a blurb about temperance on this page. Page two featured many small news items…

Studio portrait of Left Hand and his son, U.S. Grant (Grant Left Hand). Grant is wearing a school uniform.

Studio portrait of Left Hand, an Arapaho chief, with his son, U.S. Grant also known as Grant Left Hand. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has four copies of this image: PA-CH1-064a and CS-CH-044.1-.3.  

Richard Henry Pratt requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs authorize Agent Miles' expenses incurred while transporting a party of six Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs and their children as well as Daniel Tucker from the Carlisle Indian School to Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. Tucker and the chiefs' children are all Carlisle students.…