Annual Mid-Winter Festival / Powwow March 10, 2007

Don't miss this annual event:

Mid-winter Festival Powwow

March 10, 2007 Dickinson College Kline Center Carlisle PA 17013

Head Lady Dancer-Shannon Petree, Hunkpapa Sioux, Standing Rock Reservation

Head Man Dancer- Mike Maniscalco, Ihunktowan Sioux, University of South Dakota

Emcee: Clayton Old Elk- Crow Nation

For additional information contact: Don Hockenberry at 717-677-8026

January 24, 1896 INDIAN HELPER

The reward for ten subscriptions - a book of images of the Carlisle Indian School grounds and the six graduating classes.

Also of interest in January 24, 1896 INDIAN HELPER:

Mrs. Phebe A. Leland, who was reported seriously sick with pneumonia, last week has since died. - Doylestown Intelligencer.
The Carlisle school loses a good friend in the death of this excellent woman. Mrs. Leland has been a patron of the school since 1883, and had eighteen Indian boys under her care at different times.

Five of those boys were:
Marcellus Bahazum, Apache POW, enrolled 1887-1903
Martin Christjohn, Wisconsin Oneida, enrolled 1891-1893
Humphrey Escharzay, Chiricahua Apache, enrolled 1886-1894
Jesse Kinjoekety, Jr., Cayuga from Versailles NY, enrolled 1892-1909
Nelson Porter, Chippewa from LaPointe Wisconsin, enrolled 1890-1896