Ernie Black arrived at Carlisle Indian School on October 27, 1879. Ernie would leave the school on June 14, 1887. An after report show that Ernie Black had been living in Cantonment and Longdale, Oklahoma and was working as a interpreter from the years 1910 to 1914. In 1917 Ernie Black was apart of a delegation to Washington D.C. to discuss the claims of the Black Hills with President Wilson.
Cheyenne
Indian Name (translated): “Little Wolf”
Arrived Carlisle Indian School February 3, 1881
Age at Arrival: 14 years
Previous Schooling: None
Didn’t Graduate, left the school in 1887
©2017 Cumberland County Historical Society | Adapted from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Research Pages of Barbara Landis