Nason, Bertha

Student file of Bertha Nason, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on November 25, 1884, and departed on May 23, 1889. The file contains student information cards, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Nason was a housewife living in Bena, Minnesota in 1910.

In school documentation Bertha…

Student information card of Bertha Nason, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on November 25, 1884 and departed on May 23, 1889. The file indicates Nason was married and living in Bena, Minnesota in 1913.

The first page opened with the poem "Strength For To-Day" followed by a piece called "Going Home!" The article gave a fictitious conversation between Carlisle students Allie and Fanny about the disadvantages of going home to the reservation because of the unsanitary conditions and practices there. It continued on page four. Page two featured…

This issue opened with a poem titled “A CLUSTER OF NEVERS,” from Selected, followed by a fictionalized conversation between two boys traveling to their homes in the west from Carlisle titled “TWO BOYS TALK IN THE CARS ON THEIR WAY HOME: WHAT THEY MAY HAVE SAID.” In the conversation, “Ira” and “Bart” muse about their appreciation of…

The first page opened with a poem "The Singer’s Alms: An Incident in the Life of the Great Tenor, Mario” by Henry Abbey, followed by the first installment in a series of articles written by the Man-on-the-Band-Stand about a Pueblo girl named Mollie. These stories were later published in book form in Stiya by Marianna Burgess, who used…

Studio portrait of Madge Nason (left) and Bertha Nason (right), both wearing school uniforms.

The handwritten note on the reverse side reads: Bertha and Madge Nason. Chippewas from Minn.

This photograph originally appeared in an album that E. A. Seabrook, a teacher at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School,…

Studio portrait of Bertha Nason (left) and Madge Nason (right), both wearing school uniforms. 

A series of twenty nine letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.