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Lawyer, Corbett

Corbett Lawyer arrived at the Carlisle Indian School on December 7, 1893 and would graduate from the school on March 11, 1899.  Lawyer married Madge Cunningham.  Lawyer would attend the Sante Fe Normal School in Sante Fe, New Mexico in 1899.  He then went on too clerk at Fort Lapwai, Idaho from 1907 to 1911.  Then would end up being a rancher in Pine Ridge, South Dakota in 1914.

Nez Perce

Arrived Carlisle Indian School December 7, 1893

Age at Arrival: 16 years

Previous Schooling: None

Graduated, class of 1899

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