Spokane students, 'new recruits' to the Indian Training School
Title
Spokane students, 'new recruits' to the Indian Training School
Description
A group portrait of students from the Spokane tribe at the Forest Grove Indian Training School, taken when they were 'new recruits.' The caption notes that this was number 43 in a series of photographs by I.G. Davidson, a photography studio based in Portland. The photograph is one of several group portraits that depict 'before and after' views of students at the school; see also the corresponding 'after' picture, PUApic_008035. These photographs show how the school taught the children to behave according to the norms of white society. This image was reproduced alongside several other images of the school as an etching in a popular magazine, Harper's Weekly, in 1882. The students pictured are probably the Spokane students who, according to the school roster, arrived in July, 1881: Alice L. Williams; Florence Hayes; Suzette (or Susan) Secup; Julia Jopps; Louise Isaacs; Martha Lot; Eunice Madge James; James George; Ben Secup; Frank Rice; and Garfield Hayes.
Creator
I. G. Davidson, photographer
Subject
Off-reservation boarding schools
Native American Studies
Chemawa Indian School
Place
Forest Grove, Oregon
Identifier
PUApic_008608.jpg
Source
Forest Grove Indian School Collection, Pacific University Archives
Date
1881
Other Media
Davidson, Photo. Davidson, Photo, No. 43. New Recruits---Spokane Indians. Portland, Oregon.