Wood, Cotton

Student file of Cotton Wood, a member of the Apache Nation, who entered the school on February 2, 1884 and departed on November 21, 1892. The file contains a student information card, and a letter. 

In school documentation Cotton Wood is also known as Cotton Wood Tree, Young Wood, and Alaneo C. Wood.

The first page opened with a poem by Fannie Bolton titled “It is Time,” followed by “The Experience of a Bull: A Child’s Version of the Recent Flood at Lewistown,” followed by “A Busy Indian Boy in the Country” which was Wallace Scott’s (Pueblo) description of his farm experience in Bucks County. Page two featured a notice of the new premium…

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they were not all…

Studio portrait of fifteen unidentified male students. 

The Cumberland County Historical Society has two prints of this image. One identifies them as Apache students and the other as specifically San Carlos Apaches. 

Records document fewer than fifteen male San Carlos Apache students ever attending the school, and they…

Studio portrait of Cotton Wood (Cotton Wood Tree) wearing school uniform.

Note: Previous cataloging indicates the handwritten caption contains the date October 1888.

Studio portrait of Colton Wood (Cotton Wood Tree). 

Studio portrait of Cotton Wood (Cotton Wood Tree).

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…