Martin, Charles

Student file of Charles Martin, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on February 11, 1884, and departed on June 14, 1887.  The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, a position card, and a report after leaving indicating that Martin was working as a…

Student information card of Charles Martin, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on February 11, 1884 and departed on June 14, 1887. The file indicates Martin was living in Beaulieu, Minnesota in 1913.

Student file of Charles White Horn, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1912, and ultimately departed on June 12, 1916. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, financial transactions, an outing record, an…

Student information card of Charles White Horn, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on August 29, 1912 and departed on June 12, 1916.

Student file of Frank Verigan, a member of the Alaskan (Tlingit) Nation, who entered the school on October 23, 1917, graduated in 1918, and departed on June 8, 1918. The file contains student information cards, an application for enrollment, a physical record, financial transactions, correspondence, Verigan's biographical essay from his senior…

The first page opened with a poem by E.G. titled "U.S.I.D.” followed by the next installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” (continued from the previous week). The story continued on the fourth page. Page two…

The first page opened with a notice that there were no Indian Helper newspapers published for December 28 and January 3rd. A notice followed: “A Novel Christmas Present: Our Superintendent Made with his own Hands a tin Cup for Each Employee.” Next was a poem, by “E.G.“dated Dec. 25, ’89 titled “The School Poet Again Stirred” about…

Henry Martin writes the Bureau of Indian Affairs to have his son Charles Martin sent home from the Carlisle Indian School. Richard Henry Pratt responds that Charles Martin came to the school in 1884 on a five year term and is doing well and expresses no desire to return home.

Henry Martin requests the return of his son Charles Martin from the Carlisle Indian School due to the health of other Chippewa students at Carlisle. The interpreter writing the letter, J. A. Gilfillian, adds that he believes that because half of the students he brought to Carlisle have died that it has caused lots of consternation among parents…

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter forwarding a letter from Agent T. J. Sheehan requesting the return of Charles Martin and Henry Hudson to the White Earth Agency. Pratt responds that Martin is a student at Carlisle while Hudson is a student at the Lincoln Institute (the Educational Home in Philadelphia). In…

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.