He was unquestionably one of Pratt’s favorite students – having come to the Carlisle Indian School speaking no English on November 1883. One of the graduates of the class of 1895, the boy who came with the name translated from Lakota: “Kills In Timber” went on to star in the first Native American-casted silent movie, The Silent Enemy. Yellow Robe wrote, “At the age of 15, I was taken away to the far east to school by big general RH Pratt, wearing my full Indian costume, long hair, painted face, feathers, mocassins and blanket and not knowing a word of English. Yet in a few years I was able to pass from the silent walls of the school house as an independent American citizen. To educate the Indians is not a disgrace to American civilization.”
Rosebud Sioux
Indian Name (translated): “Kills in Timber”
Arrived Carlisle Indian School November 14, 1883
Age at Arrival: 16 years
Previous Schooling: None
Graduated, class of 1895*
©2017 Cumberland County Historical Society | Adapted from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Research Pages of Barbara Landis