Student information card of Bennie Parr, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on October 20, 1888 and departed on May 6, 1889.
Pendleton, David

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November 13, 1879
Captain Richard Henry Pratt writes to Ezra H. Hayt, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, regarding the first group of Sioux, Ponca, Pawnee, Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita, Seminole, Cheyenne, and Arapahoe children and young adults brought to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt offers a detailed description of the journey, and then lists each individual…
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