Student file of Rosa Ross, a member of the Cherokee Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on July 3, 1883. The file contains student information cards.
Ross, Rosa
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National Archives and Records Administration
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Student information card of Rosa Ross, a member of the Cherokee Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on July 3, 1883.
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 1882
On page one Bessie West wrote her “School Father” about what she has been doing since she left Carlisle. On the same page E.C. compared Indian children’s want to go to school to a child who wants to swim, once they are allowed, they will take their fill before leaving. Following on the next page, Charles Kihega (Iowa) explained how little…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
Portrait of fifteen female students with a female teacher posed in front of and on the bandstand on the school grounds. The caption on the album page identifies them as Creek students who arrived in January 1881, although at least one of them, Rosa Ross, is believed to be Cherokee.
The Cumberland County Historical Society and has…
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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
January 19-20, 1881
These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 26, 1881 - January 27, 1881
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report on the health of the newly arrived Creek students from the school physician C. H. Hepburn. Hepburn indicates four students who have been physically affected by previous illness and comments on the age of the children as compared to the age they provided (noting he believes several of the girls are older…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 19, 1904
Report on the health of current and former Cherokee students of the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration