Spread Hands, Jessie

Student file of Jessie Spread Hands, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and ultimately departed on April 23, 1895. 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…

Student information card of Jessie Spread Hands, a member of the Arapaho Nation, who entered the school on September 6, 1880 and departed on April 23, 1895. The file indicates Spread Hands was married and living in Eagle City, Oklahoma in 1914.

Studio portrait of Jessie Spread Hands. 

Photo taken of visiting Cheyenne and Arapahoe Chiefs with Carlisle students and government employees at Devil's Den at the Gettysburg battlefield. The image is dated November 28, 1884.

One person is identified only as "Kise." It is not known if this is Kise (Red Wolf) or Kise Williams. 

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (front row, left to right): Etta Robertson, Rose Howell, Jessie Spread Hands, Jennie Mitchell, and Elizabeth Wind; (back row, left to right): Nellie Carey, Phoebe Howell, Annie Thomas, and Lillie Wind.

The caption for this image gives a date of 8/1887…

Studio portrait of nine female students, all wearing school uniforms. They are (front row, left to right): Etta Robertson, Rose Howell, Jessie Spread Hands, Jennie Mitchell, and Elizabeth Wind; (back row, left to right): Nellie Carey, Phobebe Howell, Annie Thomas, and Lillie Wind.

The caption for the National Anthropological Archives…

Studio portrait of Kate Stocker and Jessie Spread Hands.

Studio portrait of Lydia Harrington, Frank Harrington, and Jessie Spread Hands. Frank Harrington is wearing a school uniform.

Studio portrait of Jessie Spread Hands (left) and Izora Taylor (right). Both are wearing school uniforms.

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with a list of students whose terms of enrollment are set to expire or for other reasons and requests authority to return them to their homes.

Reply to Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the ages of outgoing pupils.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter and list of names from William P. Campbell regarding Cheyenne students at Carlisle who have not received their annuity payments. Pratt notes that there is no need for the students to have the money while at Carlisle and that the money is safe in the Treasury until they leave Carlisle.