Portrait of the Carlisle Indian School Band, 1906
Original photo is split across two pages. Original caption reads: “Carlisle Indian School Band 1906”
In the entire history of the U.S. Carlisle Indian School Band, this organization stood up second to none as a school Band…… with a usual membership enrollment of fifty to eighty.
Top Row L to R: Oscar Smith, Oneida; George H. Thompson, Mashpe; Jesse Youngdeer, Cherokee; William Weeks, Grose Ventre; Jefferson Smith, Sioux; Lous Bear, Stockbridge; Blaine HIll, Cherokee; Benjamin Penny, Nez Perce; James Johnny, Alaskan; Ralph Waterman, Seneca; Thomas Eaglem, Sioux; Charles Huber, Mandan.
2nd Row L to R: William Moon, Menominee; William Winnie, Seneca; George Gardner, Chippewa; Levi Williams, Seneca; Charles Kennedy, Onandago; Roger Venne, Chippewa; James Mumblehead, Cherokee; John Waterman, Seneca; Harry Thomas, Shoshone; ARchie Dundas, Alaskan; Albert Lorenz, Witchata; Carl Silk, Gros Ventre; Hastings Robertson, Sioux.
3rd Row L to R: Joel Wheelock, Oneida; Charles LaMere, Winnebago; William Nelson, Pima; William S. Jackson, Alaskan; Lonnie Patton, Alaskan; Louis Paul, Alaskan; Malcome Coates, Oneida; Eugene Funmaker, Winnebago; James Wind, Sioux; Earl Doxtator, Cayuga; Loius Chingwa, Chippewa; Paul White, Alaskan; Alfred Venne, Chippewa.
Lower Row L to R: Fred Schandore, Onandago; Patrick Verney, Alaskan; Freeman Johnson, Seneca; Manus Screamer, Cherokee; Eugene Geffe, Alaskan; Charles Mitchell, Assinaboine; C.M. Stauffer, Director; Nicodemus Billy, Seneca; Joseph Poodry, Seneca; John Harvey, Assinaboine; Arthur Mandan, Mandan; Reuben Sun-Down, Seneca.
Photographer: unknown
Collection: Carlisle Indian School
Photo ID: WK-57-01
©2017 Cumberland County Historical Society | Adapted from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School Research Pages of Barbara Landis