Red Eagle, Grace

Student file of Grace Red Eagle, a member of the Quapaw Nation, who entered the school on May 30, 1885, graduated in 1897, and departed on July 6, 1897. The file contains a student information card, returned student surveys, a former student response postcard, and a report after leaving. The file indicates Red Eagle was housekeeping in Baxter…

Studio portrait of Grace Red Eagle, probably wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Grace Red Eagle.

Studio portrait of Grace Red Eagle.

Studio portrait of tweleve female and fourteen male students. 

The caption reads: GRADUATING CLASS OF ’97. INDIAN INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL, CARLISLE, PA.

Samuel Gruett, Chippewa. Rob’t. Depoe, Siletz. Clarence Whitethunder, Sioux. Edw. Rogers, Chippewa. Brigman Cornelius, Oneida. Mary Miller, Chippewa. Frank…

Portrait of twelve female and fourteen male students posed outside on the school grounds. The students are identified below the image. 

This is a page from The Red Man, March 1897. The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 14A-02-01 and 15-28-01. 

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a list of the Graduating Class of 1897 of the Carlisle Indian School to W. N. Hailmann along with his assessment of their character and efficiency.