Carlisle Indian School Connections

8/25/2025

Adams County, Pennsylvania Families Who Kept Carlisle Indian Industrial School students in Their Homes: including patrons in the "Outing System," their locations, the dates and durations of these assignments, and the young people assigned to them.

1892 04 02 - 1892 09 09 Bemus Pierce (Seneca) in home of E Seabrook, Gettysburg for 5 months, 1 week

1892 04 14 - 1892 09 08 Jeanette [Pahgostatem] Woods (Apache) in home of J Cochran, Gettysburg for 4 months, 3 weeks

1892 04 14 - 1892 09 08 Lavinia Adams (Oneida) in home of S Horner, Gettysburg for 4 months, 3 weeks

1892 07 14 - 1892 09 01 Willie Carfield (Ottawa) in home of John Kimple, Trust, for 1 month, 2 weeks

1892 09 08 - 1893 09 12 Lizzie Howard (Sioux) to J Watson Dickson, Hunterstown for 12 months

1894 05 16 - 1894 07 02 Mary Shane (Crow) to MA Garvin, Gettysburg, for 1 month, 3 weeks

1896 04 25 - 1896 09 09 Ophelia King (Oneida) to C Smith, Wenksville, for 4 months, 2 weeks

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 09 Lida Konkapot (Stockbridge) to J Eppelman, Bendersville, for 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 09 Martha Wahmegance (Chippewa) to C Samuel Griest, Guernsey, for 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 09 Lizzie Flanders (Menominee), to Ruth Griest, Flora Dale, for 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 09 Sarah Williams (Chippewa), to Mrs OP House, Bendersville, for 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1898 04 02 Lucia Schanandore (Oneida), to Mary Peters, Guernsey, for 1 year and 11 months

Rick Gonzalez’ grandmother. There was a huge storm (tornado) in the area in October and many of Charles Tyson’s shade trees were blown down and some ruined.

1896 05 01 - 1896 08 12 Susie Papin (Osage) to J Taylor, Bendersville, for 3 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 11 Minnie Zallawager (Cheyenne) to W Weaver, Bendersville, 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 07 02 Cecilia Harold (Arapaho) to William Black, Flora Dale, for 2 months.

1896 05 01 - 1896 09 09 Amelia Kennedy (Seneca) to Anna Garretson, Table Rock, for 4 months, 1 week

1896 05 01 - 1896 07 02 Lena Hudson (Seneca) to Josiah Prickett, Flora Dale, for 2 months

1896 05 01 - 1896 06 06 Lillie Archiquette (Oneida) to William Taylor, Bendersville, for 1 month

1896 05 01 - 1896 07 02 Lizzie Moore (Nez Perce) to Lewis Thistle, Bendersville, for 2 months

1896 05 01 - 1896 07 06 Mary Armaimasang (Chippewa) to Edwin Wright, Flora Dale, for 2 months

1896 05 01 - 1896 07 02 Rose Denomie (Chippewa) to Henry Weigle, Flora Dale for 2 months.

1896 07 01 - 1896 09 09 Delia Webster (Oneida) to E Prickett, Flora Dale for 2 months.

1897 03 15 - 1898 05 02 Rachel Brewer (Sioux) to Mrs. E Prickett, Flora Dale for 1 year, 1 month and 3 weeks.

1897 03 27 – 1897 04 08 Mary Pradt (Pueblo) to Mrs. Jennie C Taylor, Bendersville for 12 days.

1897 03 27 - 1897 09 11 Minnie Zallawager (Cheyenne) to C Weaver, Bendersville for 5 months and 2 weeks.

1897 04 02 - 1897 09 04 Martha Wahmegance (Chippewa) to C Samuel Griest, Guernsey for 5 months.

1897 04 02 - 1897 09 10 Angeline View (Potawatomi) to Florence Michener, Guernsey for 5 months, 1 week.

1897 04 14 - 1897 09 10 Ella Butts (Cheyenne) to Jennie Taylor, Bendersville for 5 months.

1897 05 08 - 1897 09 18 Nina Carlisle (Cheyenne) to Dr. Stover, Bendersville for 4 months, 1 week.

1897 06 11 - 1897 07 24 Margaret LaMere (Winnebago) to J Eppelman, Aspers PA for 1 year, 2 weeks.

1897 06 15 - 1897 09 10 Lizzie Flanders (Menominee) arsonist to Ruth Griest, Flora Dale for 3 months.

1897 08 06 - 1897 10 16 Rebecca Knudsen (Ponca Klamath?) to J W Eppelman, Aspers for 2 months, 1 week.

1897 08 26 - 1897 10 11 Mary Logg (Sioux) to E C Tyson, Flora Dale for 1 month, 2 weeks.

1898 03 10 - 1898 07 09 Naomi Wilson (Cheyenne) to J Taylor, Bendersville for 4 months.

1898 04 06 - 1899 07 29 Sosipatra Suvaroff (Alaskan) to M Garvin, Gettysburg for 1 year, 4 months.

1898 04 07 - 1898 09 15 Katie Powlas (Oneida) to J Eppelman, Aspers for 5 months, 1 week.

1898 05 05 - 1898 08 31 Bertha Mohawk (Seneca) to Letitia B Griest (Mrs. C Samuel) for4 months.

1898 05 05 - 1898 10 01 Emma St Pierre (Sioux) to Mary Peters, Guernsey for 5 months.

1898 05 05 - 1900 09 13 Amelia Kennedy (Seneca) to Dr JG Stover, Bendersville for 2 years, 3 months, 2 weeks.

"On Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Dorsett went to Bendersville to visit Amelia Kennedy. She went to the public school which Amelia attends, and on invitation gave a brief talk about Carlisle. A novel feature observed at the dismissal of Amelia's classmates was a quotation by each pupil when leaving the room." Feb 9, 1900 Indian Helper

Bendersville Census 1900 p.6,#402, James G Stover, 30, doctor

Wife, Edith, 30. Boarder Dennis Taylor, 22, driver. Boarder Amelia Kennedy, 14, servant.

Also on the page: #401 (next door) Elias Peters, 57, widower, cattle dealer with dau Lillie, 32.

1898 06 11 - 1898 09 02 Ada Tirance (Mohawk) to R Griest, Flora Dale for 2 months, 3 weeks.

1898 06 20 - 1898 09 13 Julia Jarvis (Okanagan) to W Weaver, Bendersville for 2 months, 3 weeks.

1898 07 02 - 1898 08 16 Lottie Bisonette (Sioux) to Phillip D Weaver, Menallen for 1 month, 2 weeks.

1898 07 05 - 1898 07 12 Josephine Morrell (Spokane) to Cornelius Bender, Aspers for 1 week.

1898 07 07 - 1898 09 12 Nettie Miller (Chippewa) to C Cook, Flora Dale for 2 months.

1898 07 07 - 1899 10 14 Lucinda Welch (E Cherokee) to William Eppleman, Menallen for 1 year, 3 months, 1 week.

1898 07 07 - 1898 07 14 Cynthia Cooper (Crow) to EC Fidler, Aspers for 1 week.

1898 07 07 - 1898 09 03 Annie Reinken (Alaskan) to J Lee Smedley, Flora Dale for 2 months.

1898 07 07 - 1898 11 04 Dora Reinken (Alaskan) to Miss Nate Wagner, Table Rock for 4 months.

1898 07 09 - 1899 02 20 Phoebe Schanandore (Oneida) to J Taylor, Bendersville for 6 months, 3 weeks.

1898 07 09 - 1898 08 16 Ellen Moore (Cheyenne) to Jennie Taylor, Bendersville for 1 month, 1 week.

1898 09 15 - 1899 02 20 Phoebe Schanandore (Oneida) to Curtis H Foyle for 5 months, 1 week.

1898 09 15 - 1899 02 25 Dora Moses (Seneca) to Mrs. H House, Bendersville for 5 months, 1 week.

1899 04 06 - 1900 09 14 Irene Suvaroff (Alaskan) to Mrs. MA Garvin, Gettysburg for 1 year, 5 months, 1 week.

1899 04 06 - 1899 09 ?? Dora Reinken (Alaskan) to WC Weaver, Bendersville for 5 months (?).

1899 07 31 - 1899 08 24 Nina Carlisle (Cheyenne) to Mary AT Peters, Guernsey for 3 weeks.

1899 10 03 - 1899 10 14 John Cornelius (Oneida) to JW Prickett, Sunnyside for 11 days.

1899 10 03 - 1899 10 14 Archie Libby (Chippewa) to JW Prickett, Sunnyside for 11 days.

1899 10 03 - 1899 10 14 John Miller (Chippewa) to JW Prickett, Sunnyside for 11 days.

1899 10 03 - 1899 10 14 Robert L White (Nez Perce) to JW Prickett, Sunnyside for 11 days.

1899 11 22 - 1901 09 27 Nora Printup (Seneca) to EJ Wolfe, Gettysburg for 1 year 10 months.

1900 04 05 - 1900 09 14 Ella Stander [Grass Woman] (Arapaho) to Mrs. EE Slaybaugh, Gettysburg for 5 months and 1 week.

1900 05 19 - 1900 06 08 Grace Kieh (Pueblo) to MA Garvin, Gettysburg for 3 weeks.

1900 06 25 - 1901 01 23 Margaret Shoulder [Scholder] (Mission) to Elisa R Griest, Flora Dale for 7 months.

1900 07 14 - 1901 06 18 Bertha May Henry (Tuscarora) to Mrs. EMG Prickett, Flora Dale for 11 months.

1900 07 17 - 1901 09 13 Ella Petoskey (Ottawa) to Florence Mitchener, Guernsey for 1 year and 2 months.

1900 07 26 - 1900 09 03 Knudsen, Rebecca (Ponca) to JW Eppelman, Aspers for 1 month and 1 week.

1901 01 19 - 1903 08 21 Suvaroff, Irene (Alaskan) to Mrs. EMG Prickett, Flora Dale for 2 years and 7 months.

1901 04 04 -1902 06 xx Anton, Millie (Pima) to Jacob Weaver, Gettysburg for 2 months (?)

1901 04 04 - 1901 09 13 Kennedy, Amelia (Seneca) to Geo A Trimmer, York Springs for 5 months and 9 days.

1901 05 01 -1901 09 24 George, Anna (E Cherokee) to AH Treiber, New Oxford for 4 months and 3 weeks

1901 06 18 - 1901 11 21 Patterson, Cora (Seneca) to Mrs. EMG Prickett, Flora Dale for 5 months and 3 days

1901 09 04 - 1901 09 27 Thompson, Nancy (Mohawk) to EJ Wolfe, Gettysburg for 3 weeks

1901 09 13 - 1902 04 04 Means, Minne (Sioux) to Florence Michner, Guernsey for 6 months and 3 weeks

1901 09 13 - 1901 10 08 Allen, Claudia (Seneca) to HP Treiber, New Oxford for 3 weeks and 2 days

1901 09 19 - 1902 05 06 Connors, Alice (Mohawk) Trimmer, Geo (Trinner), York Springs for 7 months and 2 weeks and 3 days

1901 09 19 - 1902 04 04 Connors, Mary (Mohawk) to Geo A Trimmer, York Springs for 6 months and 2 weeks

1899 10 12 - 1901 09 24 Petoskey, Ella (Ottawa) to FB Wilson, Flora Dale for 1 year and 11 months and 1 week and 5 days

1901 10 08 - 1902 04 02 Howard, Annie (Blackfeet) to HP Treiber, New Oxford for 5 months and 3 weeks and 4 days

1901 12 03 - 1902 04 16 Barker, Nancy Helena (Sioux) to EMG Prickett, Flora Dale for 4 months and 2 weeks

1902 04 03 - 1902 09 14 Jamison, Lucy (Seneca) to John Gilliland, Gettysburg for 5 months and 1 week and 4 days

1902 04 03 - 1902 09 14 Hayes, Lizzie (Nez Perce) to Florence Michener, Guernsey for 5 months and 1 week and 4 days

1902 04 16 - 1904 09 16 Barker, Nancy Helena (Sioux) to C Arthur Griest, Guernsey for 5 months

1902 04 26 - 1902 09 14 Printup, Nora (Seneca) to EJ Wolfe, Gettysburg for 4 months and 2 weeks and 4 days

1902 05 06 - 1902 08 27 Jackson, Edith (Seneca) to Mary Tyson Peters, Guernsey for 3 months and 3 weeks

1902 05 06 - 1902 08 16 Aiken, Agnes (Chippewa) to Mrs. ME Tyson, Guernsey for 3 months and 1 week and 3 days

1902 06 14 - 1902 09 12 Bartlett, Edith (Bannock) to CJ Weaver, Gettysburg for 3 months

1902 09 19 - 1903 09 15 Jamison, Lucy (Seneca) to John Gilliland, Gettysburg for 1 year (shy of 4 days)

1902 10 11 - 1903 09 14 Cadotte, Maggie (Chippewa) to CJ Weaver, Gettysburg for 11 months and 3 days

1903 04 04 - 1904 09 16 Good Iron, Josephine (Sioux) to Florence Michener, Guernsey for

1903 04 04 - 1903 09 14 Charley, Bessie (Peoria) to Mrs Annnie Eckenrode, McSherrystown for 1 year and 5 months and 1 week and 3 days

1903 04 04 - 1903 05 12 Bennett, Georgia (Seneca) to Eliza S Large, Orrtanna for 1 month and 8 days

1903 05 02 - 1903 09 14 Primeau, Grace (Sioux) to SB Noel, Abbottstown for 4 months and 1 week and 5 days

1903 05 02 - 1905 09 01 Chisholm, Ollie [Olive] (Shawnee) to Robert K Major, Gettysburg for 2 years and 4 months

1903 05 02 - 1903 05 08 Kicks-the-Iron, Ada (Sioux) to John Redding, Gettysburg for 6 days

1903 05 12 - 1903 09 12 Drives-the-Bear, Alice (Sioux) to Mrs Eliza Large, Orrtanna for 4 months

1903 05 20 - 1903 09 14 Big Tree, Charlotte (Mohawk) to Mrs Chester Tyson, Flora Dale for 3 months and 3 weeks and 3 days

1903 05 20 - 1904 04 10 Red House, Laura (Sioux) to Wm Brown, McSherrystown for 10 months and 3 weeks

1903 06 18 - 1903 07 01 Petoskey, Ella (Ottawa) to Eliza R Griest, Flora Dale for 1 week and 6 days

1903 06 23 - 1903 09 14 Aiken, Mary (Chippewa) to Mrs Robert Sneeringer, EdgeGrove for 2 months and 3 weeks and 1 day

1903 07 01 - 1903 08 29 Petoskey, Ella (Ottawa) to CJ Tyson, Guernsey for 1 month and 4 weeks

1903 08 22 - 1903 09 14 Melotte, Maggie (Menominee) to Mrs EM Prickett, Flora Dale for 3 weeks and 2 days

1903 09 14 - 1903 10 06 Agard, Mary (Sioux) to Mrs Robert Sneeringer, EdgeGrove for 3 weeks and 1 day

1903 11 24 - 1904 07 06 Charley, Bessie (Peoria) to Mrs Annnie Eckenrode, McSherrystown for 7 months and 1 week and 5 days

1904 06 18 - 1904 09 16 Schanandore, Jennie (Oneida) to EMG Prickett, Biglerville for 2 months and 4 weeks and 1 day

1904 09 24 - 1905 04 01 Leonard, Marguerite (Choctaw) to Wm G Prickett, Biglerville for 6 months and 1 week and 1 day

1904 09 24 - 1905 04 02 Dickinson, Jessie (Alaskan) to C Arthur Griest, Guernsey for 6 months and 1 week and 2 days

1905 03 03 - 1905 06 02 Calac, Zenobia (Mission) to Mrs WH Griest, Biglerville for 3 months (1 day shy)

1905 03 31 - 1905 07 04 Ironshield, Nellie (Sioux) to Chas Michener, Aspers for 3 months and 4 days

1905 04 01 - 1905 05 20 Leonard, Marguerite (Choctaw) to Mrs WH Griest, Biglerville for 1 month and 2 weeks and 5 days

1905 04 01 - 1905 09 02 LeClaire, Martha (Sioux) to Mrs C Arthur Griest, Guernsey for 5 months and 1 day

1905 09 21 - 1906 04 05 Jamison, Jennie (Seneca) to C Arthur Griest, Guernsey for 6 months and 2 weeks

1906 04 04 - 1906 05 20 Sampson, Grace (Winnebago) to C Arthur Griest, Guernsey for 1 month and 2 weeks and 2 days

1907 04 09 - 1908 04 08 Johnson, Anna (Seneca) to Chas Michener, Aspers for 1 year (1 day shy)

1908 04 08 - 1909 01 17 Johnson, Anna (Seneca) to EM Prickett, Biglerville for 9 months and 1 week and 2 days

1909 02 17 - 1910 08 02 Turtlehead, Winnie (Mandan/Hidatsa) [with her baby] to JW Prickett, Biglerville for 1 year and 2 weeks and 2 days

1910 05 03 - 1910 08 30 Trepania, Clara (Chippewa) to Mrs WS Adams, Aspers for 3 months and 3 weeks and 6 days

1910 06 01 - 1910 06 08 Mayo, Thomas (Pauite) to HH Tipton, Gettysburg for 1 week

1910 06 15 - 1910 09 15 Venne, Ernestine (Chippewa) to Eva Peters, Uriah [Cumberland Co] for 3 months

1910 06 27 - 1910 08 20 Mayo, Thomas (Pauite) to HH Tipton, Gettysburg for 1 month and 3 weeks and 1 day

1910 07 01 - 1910 08 19 Ross, Joseph (Pueblo) to Battlefield Photo Co, Gettysburg for 1 month and 2 weeks and 4 days

1910 10 04 - 1910 11 10 Ross, Joseph (Pueblo) to Battlefield Photo Co, Gettysburg for 1 month and 6 days

1911 04 29 - 1911 08 31 Duscharm, Anna (Flathead/Pend O’Reille) to CN Stock, Gettysburg for 4 months

1911 05 02 - 1911 06 14 Duscharm, Cecelia / Ducharme/DeCharme, Cecilia (Flathead/Pend O’Reille) to Chas Stouffer, Gettysburg for 1 month and 2 weeks

1911 06 01 - 1911 08 31 Venne, Ernestine (Chippewa) to Mrs. Earl Peters, Uriah [Cumberland Co] for 3 months

1912 06 01 - 1912 08 30 Bailey, Mary (Piegan) to Eliza Griest, Flora Dale for 3 months

1912 07 08 - 1912 08 26 Pickard, Helen (Wichita) to WC Tyson, Guernsey for 1 month and 4 weeks and 4 days

12/11/2024

Outing assignments / patrons in Adams County, PA: Who and Where

Wenksville
C Smith

Bendersville
               J Appleman
               Mrs H House
               Mrs O House
               Dr JG Stover
               Jennie Taylor
               WC Weaver

York Springs
George A Trimmer

Aspers
               WS Adams
               J W Appleman / Eppelman
               Cornelius Bender
               EC Fidler
               Curtis H Foyle
               Charles Michener

Flora Dale
               C Cook
               Eliza R Griest
               R Griest
               Mrs EMG Prickett
               Mrs Chester Tyson
               FB Wilson

Menallen
William Eppleman
Phillip O Weaver

Guernsey
               C Arthur Griest
               Mrs C Arthur Griest
               L Griest
               Florence Michener
               Mary Tyson Peters
               CI Tyson
               Mrs ME Tyson
               WC Tyson

Sunnyside
               JW Prickett

Biglerville
               Mrs WH Griest
               EMG Prickett
               Willima G Prickett

Hunterstown
               JW Dickson

Abbottstown
               SB Noel

New Oxford
               AH Treiber
               HP Treiber

Orrtanna
               Mrs Eliza S Large

Gettysburg
               Battlefield Photo Company
               J Cochran
               Mrs MA Garvin
               John Gilliland
               S Horner
               Robert K Major
               John Redding
               E Seabrook
               Mrs EE Slaybaugh
               CN Stock
               Charles Stouffer
               WH Tipton
               CJ Weaver
               Jacob Weaver
               EJ Wolfe

Edgegrove
               Mrs Robert Sneeringer

McSherrystown
               William Brown
               Mrs Annie Eckenrode

11/18/2024

Places where CIIS kids had fun: Lewis Rocks, now known as Tumbling Run

Lewis Rocks, Tumbling Run, site near early Carlisle Indian School camp

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Aug 12, 1892 Notes from INDIAN HELPER weekly “letter.”

Lewis Rocks

Camp Rip Raps

Apple fritters, prune pies and blackberry puddings

Great many snakes killed

Camp lies 5 miles from the railroad, uphill all the way.

At the mouth of Tumbling Run, under the shadow of Lewis' Rock

No houses within 4 miles

Otto Wells (Comanche) is in charge of the mule and "thinks more of it

than of himself."

One mule to haul supplies and passengers.

“It is therefore no wonder that a gentleman from Carlisle not long since, seeing the un-level road he had to travel from the station, and being unaccustomed to tramping wanted to hire a vehicle to convey him up to camp. Finding none, however, he was obliged to tramp it like the rest of us.

Should there be a picnic down at Pine Grove and the cooks all want to go, a new force is put in, one a cripple and the rest as green as gourds as far as cooking is concerned, and they get up a half-cooked dinner, entirely indigestible, while those at the school are having the idea that the camp boys must be "getting fat."

Our camp being located on a slope, those who are not careful as to the exact levelness of their beds are inclined to roll down hill. Our camp is located so far back in the mountains affords us beautiful and wonderful scenery.

Waterfalls are innumerable

So enticing is the scene that one being here invites our Carlisle photographer over to take some views.

So on a bright sunny morning all start for a favorable spot o have a few pictures taken, each anxious to have his own form taken with these beautiful waterfalls.

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On Monday afternoon the campers had a scare. Just over Lewis' rock smoke was seen to rise. It looked as though the mountain was on fire. Reuben Wolf was sent out with a looking glass to find out. If it were a fire and the campers were needed to help put it out he was to flash a signal.

Fortunately no signal was flashed as the fire was down near Mt. Holly.

Aug 26, 1892 Indian Helper

9/22/2024

Oklahoma Seminole Children brought to the Carlisle Indian School, 1879-1917

Between 1879 and 1917, nine Seminole students were sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. There were 2 girls and 7 boys, most from the Kiowa, Comanche and Wichita Agency. Their names, in order of arrival:

Albert Mekko, age 17, arrived Oct 27, 1879. He died at Carlisle April 21, 1879 and is buried in the cemetery. There is a photo of Albert among a group of students identified as "Our Boys and Girls." https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/images/our-boys-and-girls-1881 Albert is number 24. Also in the photo is Laura Toneadledmah, (Kiowa) who accompanied the group Albert arrived with in 1879. There were 55 children brought to Carlisle from OK in that Oct 27, 1879 group - 14 girls and 41 boys. Of those, ten died at the school and are buried in the cemetery although two have been repatriated, and one is scheduled to be returned next week.

The remaining Seminole children from OK enrolled are:

Jennie Connors, age 10, arrived Aug 31, 1882. Her sister, Winnie Connors, age 12, arrived the same day.

John Lowry, age 22, arrived Sep 24, 1888.

.David Baker, age 21, arrived Mar 16, 1900. He ran away from the school.

Wallace Benjamin, age 20 and Wallace Berryman, age 20 arrived Aug 30, 1906. Both of these young men died at the school.

David Wasase, age 21, arrived Sep 17, 1914.

James Robb Brown, age 15, arrived Sep 22, 1917.

The school closed in August 1918.

9/06/2024

Message from Museum of Civilizations (Italian Ministry of Culture) in Rome, Italy regarding Carlisle Indian School Photographs found in their collections

Message received in May 2024, from:

FRANCESCA MANUELA ANZELMO (Ph.D)

Curator of the Native American collections

Museum of Civilizations (Italian Ministry of Culture)

Piazza Guglielmo Marconi 14

Rome, Italy

museodellecivilta.it

"Together with my colleagues we are conducting a research on the evidence in Italian archives and museums related to the American Indian Boarding Schools in the United States between the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The starting point of our research are some photographs kept in the Archive of the Museum of Civilization, concerning the American Indian Boarding School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and Hampton Normal and Agricultural Boarding School in Virginia. The files attached concerns the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

These photographs had been donated to the Museum in 1913 by the Italian zoologist and anthropologist Enrico Hillyer Giglioli, who received them in 1883-1884 by Robert Wilson Shufeldt, when Shufeldt was honorary curator at the Smithsonian Institution (1882 - 1892).

As you can see, the photos are a copy of the ones taken by Choate available at the https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/.

Thanks to the digitalisation work carried out at Carlsisle (https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu), we were able to identify almost all the students of the Carlsisle's school in the photographs we have in our Archive. Only a few are left out. Of these we have not found any files.

We are trying to reconstruct the identities and biography of the all children in the photos kept at Museum’s Archive to finally bring them out of anonymity and inform any descendants, relatives, friends.

The aim of the research is also to reconstruct the historical path and the reasons that brought these photographs to Italy in colonial times, a few years after they were taken at Carlisle. Enrico Giglioli received them in 1883 – 1884.

But our desire is also another.

We would like to be able to let descendants, friends, relatives, know that some photos of their loved ones are in an archive of an Italian National Museum. We would like, of course if they are interested in doing so, to create a discussion with them to see how we can tell the story of their loved ones together.

These photos arrived here at that time because Italy, like other European countries, was a protagonist of the colonial culture. Therefore, we believe that it is important to make known, also to the Italians of today, the various ways in which Italy was involved in the culture of assimilation of other human beings."

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What follows are the images and captions describing the photographs.