West, Parker Whitney

Student file of Parker Whitney West, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on February 2, 1884 and departed on July 5, 1893. The file contains a student information card, a returned student survey, and a report after leaving that indicates West working as a rancher in San Carlos, Arizona in 1911.

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Student information card of Parker Whitney West, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on February 2, 1884 and departed on July 5, 1893. The file indicates West was living in San Carlos, Arizona in 1912.

Studio portrait of Parker Whitney West.

Note: This image also contains caption information for a different photograph.

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…

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 photographs, that the following students are in this group: Parker Whitney West, Ernest Hogee, Viola…

Richard Henry Pratt asks the Office of Indian Affairs if Parker West (here Porter West) should accompany Miss Eustes to the Mount Vernon Barracks as an interpreter. Pratt notes that Eustes requested West be at Hampton on Monday.

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter enclosing a letter from Acting Agent Captain Lewis Johnson regarding students from the San Carlos Agency at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt provides a list of the students who remain at Carlisle and notes that they have all consented to remain at Carlisle beyond their initial…