Student file of Millie McIntosh, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and ultimately departed on March 25, 1890. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a photograph, correspondence, a returned student survey, former student…
McIntosh, Millie
Student information card of Millie McIntosh, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on March 25, 1890. The file indicates McIntosh was married and living in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma in 1913.
Student file of Minnie Atkins, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on July 8, 1884. The file contains a student information card, correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Minnie was working in the U.S. Army in 1915.
In school documentation Minnie…
Student file of Ruby Childers, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on September 2, 1917, graduated in 1918, and departed on June 17, 1918. The file contains student information cards, financial transactions, an application for enrollment, correspondence, allotment records, and a certificate of transfer. The files indicate that…
The first page began with an untitled poem that opened with the first line “We can never be too careful,” followed by “Which Would You Rather Be a Spider or a Fly? / The White Man Like a Spider,” an account of Mr. Seger’s description of the idiosyncrasies of language translation. It continued on the fourth page. Page two featured news articles…
Portrait of fifteen female students with a female teacher posed in front of and on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption on the album page identifies them as Creek students who arrived in January 1881.
The Cumberland County Historical Society and has identified them as: front row, left to right, Elizabeth McIntosh, Rosa…
The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Childers and children Clarence, Eloise, and Ruby. Broken Arrow Oklahoma, October 8, 1915.
View of D. B. and Mildred (Millie) McIntosh Childers with their three children.
These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report on the health of the newly arrived Creek students from the school physician C. H. Hepburn. Hepburn indicates four students who have been physically affected by previous illness and comments on the age of the children as compared to the age they provided (noting he believes several of the girls are older…