Student file of Celinda Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 30, 1888, and departed on July 4, 1893. The file contains a student information card, a former student response postcard, correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating she was married and living in Oneida, Wisconsin…
Metoxen, Celinda
Student information card of Celinda Metoxen, was a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 30, 1888 and departed on July 4, 1893. The file indicates Metoxen was married and living in West De Pere, Wisconsin in 1913.
Note: Two people named Celinda Metoxen attended the school (both were Oneida, the other student entered…
Student file of Celinda Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on July 8, 1891 and departed on July 5, 1898. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey in which she writes about her husband and three children, a news clipping, and a report after leaving indicating that Metoxen was a farmer in…
Student information card of Celinda Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on July 8, 1891 and departed on July 5, 1898. The file indicates Metoxen was married and living in Oneida, Wisconsin in 1913.
Note: Two people named Celinda Metoxen attended the school (both were Oneida, the other student entered in 1888)…
The first page began with a poem titled “Do Your Best,” followed by “The Man-On-the-Band-Stand and a Stranger,” which described the “old gentleman’s” effort to thwart the hiring of an Outing student who was careless with arithmetic. It continued on page four. Page two began with “A Manly Resolution,” that reported Felix Iron Eaglefeather’s (…
Studio portrait of Celinda Metoxen possibly wearing school uniform.
Studio portrait of Hattie Long Wolf (sitting at left), Celinda Metoxen (standing in center), and Nellie Carey (sitting at right), all wearing school uniforms.
Studio portrait of Emmeline McLane and Celinda Metoxen.
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Richard Henry Pratt provides an account of transferring students from the Martinsburg Indian School to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he and P. H. Bridenbaugh told the group of students of the benefit of staying in the East and continuing their education but that it was up to them if they wanted to stay. After a discussion in…