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…
Sommers, Abe
Date of Entry:
Nation:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Date of Entry:
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.
Nation:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
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…
Format:
Newspapers
Topics:
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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…
Format:
Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abe Sommers wearing school uniform.
Nation:
Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Studio portrait of Abe Sommers and Charles Dakota, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date March 1888.
Nation:
Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
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.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Topics:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
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…
Nation:
Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Standard Forms & Transactions:
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 16, 1893
Former student Abe Somers requests to transfer from the Haskell Institute to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration