Category Archives: History

The first article about the Dartmouth Indians appeared in the alumni magazine in 1929.  A year later, in June of 1930, a second article appeared by Leon Richardson.  In his article, he mentioned that he had noticed several students missing … Continue reading →

This is the third of 3 articles including the state by state and tribe by tribe analysis of the student locations who attended the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pa.  This groups includes the states of North Dakota through Wyoming.  … Continue reading →

This is the second of three postings regarding the locations of the tribes of the students attending the Carlisle Indian School.  These records spanned about 30 years, covering about 12,000 students by their count, approximately 7000 of which are covered in … Continue reading →

The Carlisle student records are not only quite valuable individually, especially given that the assignment of some surnames occurred at enrollment, but as a group as well. In the National Archive records, three pieces of information are given for each … Continue reading →

Many people with early Native heritage “lose” their ancestor in colonial Virginia, NC or one of the states east of the Blue Ridge.  Maybe said another way, we have legends that they exist, but we can’t figure out who they … Continue reading →

This site is like candy for a sugar addict.  What a candystore!  Hat tip to Steve for sending this link! The Southeastern Native American Documents, 1730-1842, contains approximately 2,000 documents and images relating to the Native American population of the … Continue reading →