Oequa, Virginia

Student file of Virginia Oequa, a member of the Kiowa Nation, who entered the school on April 3, 1880 and departed on June 12, 1883. The file includes a student information card, a former student response postcard, correspondence, and a report after leaving indicating Oequa was house keeping while living with her husband in Lawton, Oklahoma in…

Student information card of Virginia Oequa (To turn back), a member of the Kiowa Nation, who entered the school on April 3, 1880 and departed on June 12, 1883.

Student information card of Virginia Oequa (here Ouquaquoh), a member of the Kiowa Nation, who entered the school on April 3, 1880 and departed on June 12, 1883. The file indicates Oequa was married and living in Mount Scott, Oklahoma and Lawton, Oklahoma in 1914.

The entire first page is a letter from Virginia Oequa (Kiowa) to her teacher Miss H, sent after she left Carlisle to work on a farm for a few weeks. She sent her love and explained the pride she took in her work. Page two had two articles on the shooting of President James Garfield, written by Samuel Townsend (Pawnee) and Robert W. Stewart (…

Richard Henry Pratt provides a copy of the Description of Party brought to the Carlisle Indian School by A. J. Standing on April 1, 1880.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…

Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to return students whose terms of enrollment have expired to their homes.