Sleeping Bear, Daniel

Student file of Daniel Sleeping Bear, a member of the Gros Ventre Nation, who entered the school on April 13, 1890, and departed on July 5, 1893.  The file contains a student information, correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating that, in 1910, Bear was working as a stockraiser in Hays, Montana.

Student information card of Daniel Sleeping Bear (here S. Bear), a member of the Gros Ventre Nation, who entered the school on April 13, 1890 and departed on July 5, 1893. The file indicates Sleeping Bear was living in Hays, Montana in 1913.

Portrait of fifteen male students and seven female students posed on the steps of the academic building. They are identified in the Cumberland County Historical Society's copy of this image as being "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle Apr. 1890." This photo was likely taken in May or June of that year.…

Portrait of twenty-two students-fifteen male and seven female students--posed on the steps of the academic building. The caption says that they are "Gros Ventres and Assiniboines, Ft. Belknap, Montana who entered Carlisle, Apr. 1890." This photo was likely taken in May or June of that year.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to H. D. McAnaney, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Fort Belknap Agency, regarding students from the Agency at Carlisle. Pratt takes issue with the statistics used by McAnaney to determine the death rate of students at Carlisle and further takes issue with the idea that the students suffered from pneumonia at…