McAdams, Jimmie

Student file of Jimmie McAdams, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881, and departed on July 4, 1893. The file contains a student information card, a report after leaving, and a former student response postcard that indicates McAdams was working as a farmer in Wind River, Wyoming in 1913.

Student information card of Jimmie McAdams, a member of the Shoshone Nation, who entered the school on March 11, 1881 and departed on July 4, 1893. The file indicates McAdams was living in Wind River, Wyoming in 1913.

Portrait of nine male students and six female students posed on the steps of the bandstand on the school grounds. They are wearing the clothing they arrived in. The caption says they are Northern Arapahoes who arrived in March 1881. 

Other versions of this image identify them as two Shoshone and thirteen Northern Arapaho students who…

Studio portrait of Jimmie McAdams and Willie Norkok [?], one wearing school uniform.

E. Ballan writes to add additional students to the party to be sent to Carlisle. He writes that an interpreter would like to send his son along with another from the Shoshone Nation and had previously received permission from the Indian Agent. In addition, one father will only send his daughter if her brother accompanies her to Carlisle.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes due to various reasons along with various escorts.