Student information card of Bruce Patterson, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on July 8, 1888 and departed on August 9, 1898.
Patterson, Mike
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August 31, 1888
The first page opened with a poem, “Good Advice,” followed by a fictional account of a conversation titled “Two Carlisle Boys at Pine Ridge Talk Over the Sioux Bill,” in which two former students, Zack and Tim, discuss the merits of signing the Severalty Act which had been presented to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. It concluded on the fourth…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
February 15, 1889
The first page began with an untitled poem that began with the first line, “Waste not moments, no, nor words,” followed by A-Te-Ka’s letter to the Man-on-the-band-stand titled “It Took Eight Years to Discover a Mistake.” The letter recalled a December 1881 article on early student art work from the Eadle Keatah Toh. Next came a student…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society