H.B Peiars, Chief Supervisor of Education, Haskell, Lawrence, Kansas,
to Leo Bonnin, Supt. at Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, May 15, 1923.
Letter requesting info.on how many students that completed 8 grades
or more in Government Indian Schools and their success or failures since
they left
school in the government or public working areas of employment. Supt.
Bonnin stated- From Carlisle Indian school: Benajh Miles, born 1867, Arapaho,
1/2 blood, farmer, Calument, Okla.; Emily Kaney, born 1878, Cheyenne, 1/2
blood, housewife, Ark. City, Kan.; Henry Row of Lodges, born 1879, Arapaho,
full blood, farmer, Greenfield, Okla.; Lydia La Mere, born 1881, Arapaho,
full blood, housewife, Walthill, Neb.; Emil Hauser, born 1883, Cheyenne,
1/2 blood, nightwatch, Salem Ind. School, Chemawa, Ore.; George Balenti,
born 1884, Cheyenne, 1/4 blood, with highway, State of Okla., Okla. City,
Okla.; Kish Hawkins, born 1878, Cheyenne, full blood, U.S. Indian Police,
Concho, Okla.; Michael Balenti, born 1886, Cheyenne, 1/4 blood, Professional
Baseball, Sioux City, Iowa; Julia Prentiss, born 1879, Cheyenne, 3/4 blood,
housewife, Calument, Okla.; Peter Hauser, born 1886, Cheyenne, 1/2 blood,
Umpire, profess. baseball, McAllister, Okla.; George Frass, born 1879,
Cheyenne, 1/2 blood, farmer, Calument, Okla.; Fred Roundstone, born 1886,
Cheyenne, full blood, farmer and stockman, Lame Deer,
Montana; John Balenti, born 1890, Cheyenne, 1/4 blood, (no occupation
given); Rosa Seneca, born 1883, Cheyenne, 1/2 blood, housewife, Ark. City,
Kan.; Nina C. Gabaldon, born 1884, Cheyenne, full blood, housewife, Wichita,
Kan.
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