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


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.

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…

Studio portrait of Abe Sommers wearing school uniform.

Studio portrait of Abe Sommers and Charles Dakota, one wearing a school uniform.
Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption includes the date March 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…

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