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 […]
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
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: In the spring of 1904, as there was no one available to manage it, the school was closed.
Building the Temple: An Exercise for Children’s Day, Illustrated by a Temple and an Arch
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
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
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.
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
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.
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
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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.
