Student file of Madge 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.
Nason, Madge


Student information card of Madge Nason, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on November 25, 1884 and departed on May 23, 1889.

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…
![Bertha and Madge Nason [version 2], c.1884 Bertha and Madge Nason [version 2], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-PC-004-f07.jpg?itok=MX6nkIU5)
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,…
![Bertha Nason and Madge Nason [version 1], c.1884 Bertha Nason and Madge Nason [version 1], c.1884](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/NAA_74221.jpg?itok=nO-E_6HT)
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.