Chauncey Yellow Robe’s “Record of Graduates and Returned Students”

An early twentieth-century response to a survey of recent graduates of a Native American boarding school.

Creator: Chauncey Yellow Robe

Date of Creation: 1910

Place of origin: Survey created in Carlisle, Pennsylvania; survey filled out in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Physical measurements: 3 pages

Materials: Paper, graphite, and ink.

Process by which it was made: Handwriting on a pre-printed survey form.

Current location: National Archives and Records Administration



Further Reading

Adams, David Wallace. Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995.

Carlisle Indian Industrial School: Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations, edited by Jacqueline Fear-Segal and Susan D. Rose, 43-53. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press (2016). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1dwssxz.7. 

Pexa, Christopher J. Translated Nation: Rewriting the Dakhóta Oyáte. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Warrior, Robert. The People and the Word: Reading Native Nonfiction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005.Yellow Robe, Chauncey. “The Autobiography of An Indian Boy.” How the Silent Enemy Was Made. Cline Printing Co., 1930: 4, 17.


Information contributed by Rachel Linea Brown.