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1924 Bloomfield Seminary Student List

In the fall of 1847, John Harpole Carr was appointed him to superintend the construction of buildings known afterward as “Bloomfield Academy,” in the Choctaw Nation. He was afterward appointed superintendent of the school. This establishment of the first missionary boarding school for girls among the Chickasaws. The Board contributed one third and the Nation two thirds of all the money used for the current expenses of the school. There never was any average attendance calculated for we always kept our number filled, whether it was twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five or sixty. Whenever there was a vacancy through sickness or any … Read more

School Operations among the Tuscarora Indians

For the earlier part of the history of school operations among the Tuscarora Indians, I can do no better than to give the report of Rev. John Elliot to the Secretary of War, in the year 1832, viz.: “To the Secretary of War : “This will show the operations of the schools from their organization in 1805, to September 30, 1832. “The first school among the Tuscarora was taught by Rev. Mr. Homes, the first missionary. This, according to the best information, was in 1805. What amount has been expended, either from the fund of the society or by the … Read more

Oak Hill Industrial Academy Closing Day, 1912

The following account, of the closing day of our last term of school, is taken from the last issue of the Oak Hill Freedman’s Friend.

Oak Hill Industrial Academy Closed in 1904

Oak Hill Industrial Academy: In the spring of 1904, as there was no one available to manage it, the school was closed.

Building the Temple

Building the Temple: An Exercise for Children’s Day, Illustrated by a Temple and an Arch

Teaching the Indians

Another teacher was less successful with her moral teaching, in trying to explain a hymn they had learned to recite: “Yield not to temptation, for yielding is sin; Each victory will help you some other to win.” The next day one of the girls came to her, exclaiming, triumphantly, ” I victory! I victory! Louisa Bullhead get mad with me. She big temptation. I fight her. I victory!” One can but sympathize with. another who was “victory” in a different sort of encounter. A party of excursionists landed on the Normal School grounds in the summer, and hunting up some … Read more

Young Men before Education

The growth of this institution under the charge of its originator was described seven years ago in this Magazine, since which time it has attracted the attention of leading thinkers upon education and race problems in this and other countries, and become widely known as an exponent of the value of manual-labor training in education of men and women-certainly as far as the black race is concerned. Twelve years have proved its mission in the South to be no “fool’s errand.” Eastern school to continue the education begun at St. Augustine. It was fortunate not only for these poor prisoners, … Read more

Indian Education at Hampton and Carlisle

Group of Indian Young men after Education

An article appearing in Harper’s Magazine in April 1881 concerning the “education” taking place at the Indian schools of Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Hampton, Virginia.

The First Anniversary of Hampton

At the last anniversary of Hampton, Secretary Schurz remarked in his speech “One day, soon, a very interesting sight will be seen here and at Carlisle. It will be the first Indian School-visiting Board. Within a few days twenty-five or thirty Sioux chiefs, among them some warriors whose hands were lifted against the United States but a few days ago, Red Cloud and others, will go to Carlisle and come here to see their children in these schools.” Last May, accordingly, this “Indian School-visiting Board” reached Hampton. The meeting between them and their young relatives would have convinced the most … Read more

Fat Mandan’s letter to General Armstrong

Yankton, Dakota Territory, April 5, 1850. General Armstrong: My Friend, I never saw you, but I have a strong attachment for you. I already wrote you two letters, as yon know, but to-day I have thought of yon again. “I had two boys big enough to help me to work, but you have them now. I wanted them to learn your language, and I want you to look after them as if they were your boys. This is all, my friend. Fat Mandan is my name, and I shake your hand.” There are many, no doubt, who will smile at … Read more

The Santee Normal Training School and Indian Missions

Running Antelope, an Indian chief, describing the condition of the Indians, said: “There was once a beautiful, clear lake of water, full of fish. The fish were happy and content, had plenty to eat, and nothing to trouble them. One day a man came and threw in a lump of mud, which frightened the fishes much and disturbed the water. Another day a man came again, and threw in some more mud, and even again and again, until the water became so thick that the fish could not see at all; they were so blinded and so frightened that they … Read more

Albuquerque Indian School Gallery

Albuquerque Indian School Gallery: Photographs of the Albuquerque Indian School, which was established in 1881 to provide off-reservation industrial training to the Indians of the Southwest.