Suisson, Annette

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Annette Suisson Student Information Card
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Student information card of Annette Suisson, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887 and departed on April 8, 1897.

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Annette Suisson Student Information Cards
Date of Entry:

Student information card of Annette Suisson, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on April 30, 1887 and ultimately departed on April 8, 1897.

In school documentation Annette Suisson's name is also spelled Amsette Suisson and Annette Suison.

 

Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
The Indian Helper (Vol. 4, No. 6)
September 21, 1888

The first page opened with an untitled poem by J. W. Burgess reprinted from Sunshine, followed by “Our Walnut Tree” about the Man-On-the-Band-Stand’s efforts to keep students from picking green walnuts. The second page began with “The Captain,” which described the speech Capt. Pratt made during the student assembly explaining his work…

Format:
Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Annette Suisson [version 1], c.1887

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson wearing a floral print dress.

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Annette Suisson [version 2], c.1887

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Annette Suisson with her daughter Eunice [version 1], 1888

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson with with her daughter, Eunice Suisson.  

Eunice was born at the school and was one of the infants known as the "Apache Babies."

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Annette Suisson with her daughter Eunice [version 2], 1888

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson with her daughter Eunice Suisson. 

Eunice was born at the school and was one of the infants known as the "Apache babies."

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Chiricahua and Apache female students, c. 1889

Studio portrait of a group of four female students with an older Native American man. The original caption identifies them as "Chihuahua and Apache."  

Based on comparison with other photographs, Cumberland County Historical Staff have suggested that the student seated in the front is Lucy Tsisnah and that the students in the back…

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Twenty-three Apache students [version 2], 1891Twenty-three Apache students [version 1], 1891

Studio portrait of fourteen male students and nine female students. The caption of the Cumberland County Historical Society identifies them as from the Apache nation and gives a date of 1891 for the image. Previous catloging for this version also says they are Apache students but says there is a date of 16 January 1892 in the…

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Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Twenty-three Apache students [version 2], 1891

Studio portrait of twenty-three students, fourteen male and nine female students, identified in the caption as "Apache Group, 1891." 

Staff at the Cumberland County Historical Society have identified, based on comparison with other photgraphs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola…

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Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel [version 1], c.1892

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel. 

Format:
Glass Plate Negative
Repository:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel [version 2], c.1892

Studio portrait of Annette Suisson and Naomi Merkel.

Format:
Photographic Print, B&W
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Correspondence Regarding the Return of Apache Students
July 25 - September 24, 1895

Correspondence regarding a request from Apache prisoners of war for the return of their children from the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the correspondence are various recommendations for the students as well as Richard Henry Pratt's philosophy in educating the Apache students and his views on interpreters.

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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Informs Office of Returning Apache Students
November 7, 1895

Richard Henry Pratt provides Daniel M. Browning of the decisions of the Apache students at the Carlisle Indian School relative to returning to their homes or staying at Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Informs Office that Laundress and Seamstress Position are Filled
March 18, 1897

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the four laundress positions are filled as well as the seamstress position. Pratt further requests that Lizzie James and Jennie Wolf be allowed to take the Civil Service exam to qualify permanently.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Ella Rickert Requests Transfer to Rosebud as Assistant Matron
March 12, 1899 - March 13, 1899

Ella Rickert requests a transfer to the Rosebud Agency Boarding School as an assistant matron following the resignation of Annette Suisson. Richard Henry Pratt endorses Rickert's transfer but as a cook.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration