Student file of Lucy Webster, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school June 22, 1888 and departed July 2, 1891. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, a former student response postcard, and a report after leaving indicating she was living in Oneida, Wisconsin in 1912.
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Student information card of Lucy Webster, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on June 22, 1888 and departed on July 2, 1891. The file indicates Webster was married and living in Oneida, Wisconsin in 1914.
Richard Henry Pratt provides an account of transferring students from the Martinsburg Indian School to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he and P. H. Bridenbaugh told the group of students of the benefit of staying in the East and continuing their education but that it was up to them if they wanted to stay. After a discussion in…