Student file of Louise Standing Soldier, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 20, 1902 and departed on September 6, 1907. The file contains a student information card and a report after leaving indicating she was working as a seamstress in Ft. Yates, North Dakota in 1910.
In school documentation Louise…
Student information card of Louise Standing Soldier (here S. Soldier), a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on October 20, 1902 and departed on September 6, 1907.
Correspondence regarding requests to return from the Carlisle Indian School students who had come from the Standing Rock Agency. The requests focused on a promise that the term of enrollment for Carlisle was three years rather than five years.
These materials include correspondence regarding the re-enrollment of Philomena Badger. Badger's re-enrollment was the cause of clarification on the enrollment policy of pupils over the age of 18. Philomena re-enrolled at Carlisle when she was 18 years old, against the wishes of her guardian; the Commissioner of Indian Affairs decided that…