Student information card of Eli Sheridan, a member of the Omaha Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1882 and departed on June 14, 1887.
Student information card of Eli Sheridan, a member of the Omaha Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1882 and departed on June 14, 1887.
Student file of Mary Hewitt, a member of the Omaha Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1882, and departed June 17, 1884. The file contains a student information card, and a report after leaving indicating she had married a Eli Sheridan and was living in Walthill, Nebraska, in 1910.
In school documentation Mary Hewitt's married…
Student information card of Mary Hewitt, a member of the Omaha Nation, who entered the school on August 19, 1882 and departed on June 17, 1884.
Requests by Eli Sheridan and Theodore McCauley to go home in order to aid their fathers. Richard Henry Pratt in returning the requests to the Bureau of Indian Affairs recommends denying the requests on grounds that he had recently lectured both students and believed the requests to have resulted from these lectures.
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of 80 students to return to their homes due to expiration of their terms and sickness. Pratt also details the travel arrangements for travel to the various agencies and locations. He also notes that 68 pupils whose terms have expired have elected to remain at the school.