Sommers, Abe

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Abe Sommers Student File
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Student file of Abe Sommers , a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and ultimately departed on November 12, 1896. The student did not attend the school continuously, but left and reentered. The file contains student information cards, a former student response postcard, and a report after leaving. The file…

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National Archives and Records Administration
Abe Sommers Student Information Card
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Student information card of Abe Sommers, a member of the Cheyenne Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and departed on November 12, 1896. The file indicates Sommers was living in Cantonment, Oklahoma in 1914.

 

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National Archives and Records Administration
The Indian Helper (Vol. 3, No. 41)
May 25, 1888

The first page opened with a poem, "Try," followed by a blurb against tobacco use and by "A Visit Through the Lower School Rooms," that reported the activities of students in the lower grades. It continued on page four. The second page bore news of students out in the country, the "disgraceful" portrayals of Indians by Buffalo Bill's Wild West…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
The Indian Helper (Vol. 5, No. 7)
October 4, 1889

The first page opened with a poem "Bear It in Mind” followed by the third installment of the series titled “How An Indian Girl Might Tell Her Own Story if She Had the Chance: All Founded on Actual Observations of the Man-on-the-band-stand’s Chief Clerk” which continued on the fourth page. Page two offered news from students who were home at…

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Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Abe Sommers, c.1883

Studio portrait of Abe Sommers wearing school uniform.

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Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Abe Sommers and Charles Dakota, 1888

Studio portrait of Abe Sommers and Charles Dakota, one wearing a school uniform.

Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date March 1888.

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Glass Plate Negative
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National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
List of Students to be Returned to their Homes for June 1888
June 22, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of the Indian Affairs of the 60 students who are entitled to return to their home at the end of the school term due to the expiration of their enrollment or sickness.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Descriptive Statement of Pupils Discharged to Multiple Agencies, 1888
July 7-11, 1888

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 61 individuals discharged from the Carlisle Indian School and transferred back to their homes in the San Carlos, Laguna, Wallace, Isleta, Quapaw, Eufaula, Omaha, Winnebago, Nez Perce, Crow, Kiowa and Comanche, Cheyenne and Arapaho, Ponca, Rosebud, and Pine…

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Abe Somers Requests Transfer from Haskell to Carlisle
October 16, 1893

Former student Abe Somers requests to transfer from the Haskell Institute to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration