Student information card of Ellen Tayrien, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on June 9, 1882 and departed on January 3, 1884.
Tayrien, Ellen


Student information card of Ellen Tayrien, a member of the Osage Nation, who entered the school on June 9, 1882 and departed on January 3, 1884.

Complying with Indian Office orders, Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students brought to the Carlisle Indian School by Special Agent E. B. Townsend for the fall of 1882. Students were from the Osage, Kaw, and Nez Perce Nations.

These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statements of Pupils regarding 27 children transferred to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Carlisle Indian School. Those children, from a variety of Nations, had previously been sent to Carlisle.