Student file of Eddie Running Crane, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school March 26, 1890 and departed June 5, 1895. The file contains a student information card listing four outings and a report after leaving which indicates that Running Crane was working as a clerk in Browning, Montana in 1911.
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Running Crane
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National Archives and Records Administration
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Student information card of Eddie Running Crane, a member of the Piegan Nation, who entered the school on March 26, 1890 and departed on June 5, 1895.
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National Archives and Records Administration
![Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 1], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CCHS_PA-CH2_058a.jpg?itok=m0UpkcRz "Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 1], 1892")
Studio portrait of eight Piegan chiefs.
The January 8, 1892 issue of the Indian Helper (vol. 7 no. 17) reports that these chiefs had visited the school the previous week.
The Cumberland County Historical Society has six copies of this image. One of those copies identifies the chiefs as Running Crane, Little Dog, White…
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Photographic Print, B&W
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Cumberland County Historical Society
![Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-photo/CIS-P-0010.jpg?itok=sQc83SC0 "Piegan Chiefs (Blackfoot Confederacy) [version 2], 1892")
The printed note on the reverse side reads: PIEGAN CHIEFS (BLACKFOOT CONFEDERACY) VISITING CARLISLE INDIAN SCHOOL (ca. 1891).
Front Seated Left - Running Crane, Chief of Lone Eaters.
Front Seated Center - Little Dog, Chief of the Black Patched Moccasins Bands.
Seated Center Left - White Grass.
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Photographic Print, B&W
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections