Metoxen, Jonas

Student file of Jonas Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 28, 1891 and ultimately departed on January 9, 1900. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, correspondence, a news clipping, a returned student survey, and a report after…

Student information card of Jonas Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 28, 1891 and departed on January 9, 1900. The file indicates Metoxen was living in West DePere, Wisconsin in 1913.

Student information card of Melissa Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 19, 1895 and died on April 6, 1897. She was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

Student file of Bessie Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1905, and departed on June 20, 1910. The file contains a student information card, medical/physical records, a returned student survey in which she writes about having worked as a waiter, a trade record card, an outing record, a report after…

Student information card of Bessie Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1905 and departed on June 22, 1910. The file indicates Metoxen was married and living in West De Pere, Wisconsin in 1913 through 1915.

Student file of Nancy Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1905 and departed November 4, 1905. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, correspondence, and a report after leaving indicating that she was living in West De Pere,…

Student information card of Nancy Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 13, 1905 and departed on November 4, 1905. The file indicates Metoxen was living in West De Pere, Wisconsin in 1913 and 1915.

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Note: This issue was also published as The Red Man (Vol. 16, No. 22).

Studio portrait of Albert Metoxen, Amos Metoxen, and Jonas Metoxen. 

Portrait of the 1894 football team. Bejamin Caswell, the captain of the team, is in the center holding a football with "94" painted on it.  

In The Red Man vol. 12 no 7 (Sept. Oct. Nov., 1894) this image was included as a supplement and the players identified. Back row: Joseph Irwin (Gros Ventre, Hidatsa), Charles Buck (…

Studio portrait of Jonas Metoxen.

Group portrait of sixteen male students from the 1895 football team. 

In his 1951 book, Fabulous Redmen, John Steckbeck identifies the sitters as: top row (l to r), Lone Wolf, McFarland, Smith, H. Pierce, and Nori; middle row (l to r), Redwater, Cayou, Metoxen, B. Pierce, Seneca and Printup; bottom row (l to r),…

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Carlisle Indian School Football Team 1896.

Although this photo is not captioned, John Steckbeck in Fabulous Redmen (1951) lists the 1896 team as: Frank Cayou, Harrison, Frank Hudson, Jacob Jamison, Delos Lonewolf, David McFarland, Jonas Metoxen, Artie Miller,…

Group portrait of the football team, posed with a football labeled '98 and a dog. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has a copy of this image (PA-CH3-080) and has the sitters identified as: back row (l to r): Artie Miller, Jonas Metoxen, Bemus Pierce, Edward Rogers, and Frank Hudson; middle row (l to r) Chauncey Archiquette,…

Studio portrait of the  football team. In the version of this image in publications, the players are identified: (L to R): Isaac Seneca (Seneca), William G. Thompson (Coach), Thaddeus Redwater (Cheyenne), Martin Wheelock (Oneida), Frank Scott (Seneca), Glenn Scoby "Pop" Warner (Coach), Jonas Metoxen (Oneida), James E. Johnson (Stockbridge…