Cemetery information and mortuary documents related to Minnie Topa, a member of the Pawnee Nation.
Topa, Minnie

Student information card of Minnie Topa, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and died on August 28, 1894. She was buried in the cemetery on the school grounds.

Student information card of Minnie Topa, a member of the Pawnee Nation, who entered the school on August 31, 1882 and died there on August 28, 1894. She was buried in the school cemetery.

Studio portrait captioned as "Pawnee Indian group that entered the Carlisle Indian School in 1882." If that is accurate, then the sitters include: Louis Bayhylle, Frank West, Chalkley Stafford, Abram Platt, Thomas Kester, Bruce Hayman, Henry Eagle Chief, Minnie Topa, and Nellie Aspenall. Those are the nine students from the Pawnee nation who…

Studio portrait of Minnie Topa wearing a school uniform.