Student file of Henry Martin. No Nation is identified in this file. No entrance or departure date is given. The file contains only a blank report after leaving.
Other documentation suggests that Henry Martin (Comanche) is also known as Martin Quahada, who entered on April 3, 1880 and departed on July 8, 1888.
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 Blacksmith…
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.
The first page opened with a poem titled “?” in the shape of a question mark followed by a bit by A-Te-Ka called “A Capful of Prairie Chickens,” in which she described the process of surrogate prairie chicken eggs that perished after being hatched by a domestic chicken. Page two contained short articles that included excerpts from letters from…
The first page began with a poem titled, “from The Memories of the Past and the Duties of the Present,” by John W. Woodside, followed by a reprint of a letter from former student Clarence Three Stars (Sioux) that reported conditions from his home titled “A Newsy Letter from Pine Ridge Agency: By an old Pupil of Carlisle who has been for Several…
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…
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.
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs regarding a letter from Henry Martin. Pratt notes that the letter from Martin was not enclosed.
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…