Stewart, Robert

Student file of Minnie Atkins, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881, and departed on July 8, 1884. The file contains a student information card, correspondence, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving indicating Minnie was working in the U.S. Army in 1915. 

Note: Minnie Atkins was…

Student file of Robert Stewart, a member of the Creek Nation, who entered the school on January 22, 1881 and departed on November 1, 1883. The file contains a student information card.

Note: A document of Robert Stewart's was originally found in the folder of another student; David Peery, NARA_RG 75_Series 1327_box 113_folder 4669.

Page one opened with “Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affair” which includes pieces on education, reports of the training schools. The page finished with a small letter to Miss Semple. Page two had Capt. Pratt’s account of his Western Trip, as well as information on the number of students at the school. Page three had the School…

Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand on the school grounds. All are wearing school uniforms. In the front row (from left to right) are: Almarine McKellop, Robert Stewart, Alexander McNac, Ellis Childers, Samuel Checote, and Corenlius Carr. In the back row (front left to right) are: Benjamin Marshall, James Bell, Samuel Scott, and…

Ten male Creek students posed at the bandstand on the school grounds. All are wearing school uniforms. In the front row (from left to right) are: Almarine McKellop, Robert Stewart, Alexander McNac, Ellis Childers, Samuel Checote, and Corenlius Carr. In the back row (front left to right) are: Benjamin Marshall, James Bell, Samuel Scott, and…

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 25 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Tullahassee Mission in Muscogee Indian Territory.

Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report on the health of the newly arrived Creek students from the school physician C. H. Hepburn. Hepburn indicates four students who have been physically affected by previous illness and comments on the age of the children as compared to the age they provided (noting he believes several of the girls are older…

Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to pay for the expenses of transporting Robert Stewart and Antoinette Williams to the Navajo Agency in order to take positions as teachers.

Richard Henry Pratt requests that funds expended from the Carlisle Indian School appropriation to send three students to take positions in the Indian Service at the Navajo Agency be refunded from another fund.

Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding a letter he has received from the Superintendent of the Genoa School to transfer five students to Genoa when the school opens in February 1884. Pratt states that while he is willing to send the students he does not believe the transportation costs should come out of his…