Shoushick, Nikefer

Student file of Nikefer Shoushick, a member of the Alaskan (Aleut) Nation, who entered the school on July 11, 1901 and departed on June 30, 1904. The file contains student information cards, letters/correspondence, a newspaper clipping, a returned student survey, an application for enrollment, a report after leaving, and a trade/position card.…

Student information card of Nikefer Shoushick, a member of the Alaskan (Aleut) Nation, who entered the school on July 11, 1901 and departed on June 30, 1904. The file indicates Shoushick was at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas in 1913.

Previous cataloging identified the students as being from Alaska and provides a date of 1901 for the image. It also identifies the white man as an Indian agent. 

Based on this, this group would be the one that arrived July 11, 1901 from Woody Island, Alaska. The issue of the school newspaper also mentions that a Mr. C. E. Bunnell…

Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick. 

Studio portrait of Nikefer Shoushick.

Note: The Cumberland County Historical Society has two copies of this image: 13-25-04 and 14A-07-01.

Nikifer Shoushick submits his resignation as an assistant cook at the Carlisle Indian School. J. R. Wise forwards the resignation and notes that he has no recommendation for a replacement.

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent W. A. Mercer requests to lower the salary of baker Nikefer Shoushick (here Nekifer Shouchuck) from $600 to $480 per year. Assistant Secretary of the Interior Frank Pierce grants Mercer authority to do so.