Student file of Zepheniah Simons, a member of the Pokanoket Nation, who entered the school on October 12, 1908 and ultimately departed on April 9, 1917. He did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, an application for enrollment, a news clipping, financial transactions, a…
Oshkosh, Roy


Student file of Abbie Somers, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on September 24, 1910 , graduated in 1918, and departed on June 9, 1918. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains a student information card, applications for enrollment, physical records, correspondence,…

Student file of Benjamin F. Caswell, a member of the Chippewa Nation, who entered the school on September 8, 1911 and ultimately departed on June 7, 1918. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, medical/physical records, an outing…

Student file of Relia Oshkosh, a member of the Menominee Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1914 and ultimately departed on June 7, 1918. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, certificates of promotion, an outing record, a medical/physical record, financial transactions, and correspondence. The…

Student file of Roland Oshkosh, a member of the Menominee Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1914, and departed on June 8, 1918. The file contains an application for enrollment, student information cards, financial transactions, certificates of promotion, a vacation request form, and correspondence indicating that Oshkosh returned…

Student file of Roy Oshkosh, a member of the Menominee Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1914 and departed on June 8, 1918. The file contains student information cards, applications for enrollment, a physical record, financial transactions, certificates of promotion, a federal financial aid form, a vacation request form, and…

Student information card of Roy Oshkosh, a member of the Menominee Nation, who entered the school on October 10, 1914 and departed on June 8, 1918.

Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh request to use their tribal funds to visit home during vacations. The responses and views of the Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School are included.

These materials include correspondence from Cato Sells regarding a request from Nancy Lane that Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh to use their pro rata shares of the tribal trust fund to visit their home during the school vacation.

These materials include correspondence and federal financial aid documents regarding a list of students who were not eligible for enrollment at Carlisle under new enrollment guidelines regarding the availability of schools at home agencies. Upon further investigation, certain students were allowed to remain at Carlisle.

This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…