Student file of Rosa Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 22, 1888 and ultimately departed on November 18, 1894. The student did not attend school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a report after leaving, and correspondence from 1912 in which she writes about her…
Metoxen, Rosa


Student information card of Rosa Metoxen, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 22, 1888 and departed on November 18, 1894. The file indicates Metoxen was married and living in West De Pere, Wisconsin and Kaukauna, Wisconsin in 1913.

Eight female students, posed in a line on a bridge across what looks like a stream in the woods. Almost all of them are holding baskets containing flowers or greenery.
On the reverse they are identified as: 1) Florence Walton 2) Rosey Metoxen 3) Alice Lambert 4) Cynthia Webster 5) Martha Sickles 6) Lillie Payne 7) Louisa La…

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…