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Chief White Calf – Blackfoot – Died in Washington DC in 1903
Chief White Calf – 1873 While working with the Carlisle student records, I came across Helen White Calf, an Arickara from North Dakota. Having spent many years on the powwow circuit, I was certainly...
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John Two Guns White Calf
John Two Guns White Calf (1872-1934), shown above, may indeed be memorialized in a way few other Native Americans have been – on a piece of American money – the buffalo nickel to be specific. But...
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Daniel Earring
I was quite surprised to see the name Daniel Earring in the Carlisle Indian School records. I was interested to know whether this name was an anomaly or whether it was a name found among Native...
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Native Study Website
I recently came across the Native Study website. http://www.nativestudy.com/index.html This site has several books of transcribed original records. For the most part, records deal with the following...
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Red Fox James, Blackfoot, Indian Advocate
Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. On Dec. 14, 1915, he presented the endorsements of 24 state governments at the White...
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Chief American Horse, Sioux
Chief American Horse (the younger) is one of the Indian Chiefs listed as either a visitor or a student at the Carlisle School. Chief American Horse was Oglala Lakota, born in 1840 in the Black Hills...
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Sleep Long Time
In the Carlisle Indian School records, we find someone listed as Sleep Long Time, a Chief, listed among the students. I was interested to see what I could find about this man. The picture below was...
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