Letters by a former student on his memories of the Indian Training School

Title

Letters by a former student on his memories of the Indian Training School

Description

Three transcribed letters from Henry Sicade (Puyallup), who was a student at the Forest Grove Indian Training School. They are addressed to Samuel T. Walker, who was a Sunday School superintendent there. The letters include Sicade's memories of the school regarding the teachers, the school superintendent Captain Wilkinson, and Sicade's activities after graduating. An additional transcribed letter from Walker, addressed to Professor Henry Bates of Pacific University, presents Sicade's letters to Bates, but asks for the originals back.

Sicade's memories as recorded in this letter are among the only first-hand reports by a former student of life at the Forest Grove Indian School to have survived. He supplies some of the only written evidence of physical abuse having occurred in the school. Written decades after he attended, some details such as dates are off. For example, the fire he mentions occurred in December of 1884, rather than January of 1884.

Creator

Sicade, Henry

Date

1917

Identifier

PUA_MS27_7.pdf

Subject

Off-reservation boarding schools

Native American Studies

Chemawa Indian School

Spatial Coverage

Forest Grove, Oregon

Source

Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Type

Text