Item
Letter
Order to Recruit Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Students
- Title
- Order to Recruit Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Students
- Description
- Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. A. Hayt instructs the Acting Commissioner to allow Richard Henry Pratt to select 70 students from Sioux Nations and 30 from the Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Nations.
- Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry 79, "Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-80."
- Temporal Coverage
- August 22, 1879
- Agent
- Richard Henry Pratt
- Alternate Label
- Founding of the School
- Format
- Letters/Correspondence
- extracted text
Part of Order to Recruit Sioux, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Students