Student file of Adelia Tyon, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on August 12, 1887 and departed on March 27, 1889. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, letters/correspondence regarding her cousin Hattie Long Wolf, and a report after leaving indicating she was a housewife in Pine Ridge, South…
Tyon, Adelia
Student information card of Adelia Tyon, a member of the Sioux Nation, who entered the school on August 12, 1887 and departed on March 27, 1889. The file indicates Tyon was living in Pine Ridge, South Dakota in 1913.
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return four students from the Pine Ridge Agency due to health and character. He notes that the school physician has diagnosed three students with scrofula and incipient consumption. Pratt asks that he be provided with four tickets from Carlisle to Rushville, Nebraska for the students and one ticket for…
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from George LeRoy Brown, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. In Brown's letter he provides an update and a character assessment on former Carlisle Indian School students he has met.