Daughter of Chief Spotted Tail ("Sinte Gleska") of the Brulé Sioux, and niece of Crazy Horse. Her Sioux name was Stands-and-Laughs.
Gertrude died while a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the nation's first federal off-reservation boarding school, founded in 1879 by former cavalry officer Richard Henry Pratt. The school was intended to educate, but also to teach Native children to assimilate into white culture. Her father had visited the school, but he had died by the time Gertrude went there.
Gertrude died of pneumonia at age 14 while farmed out from the school to work for the Bender family of Bucks County, PA. This practice was known as "outing". She and an unknown Native American girl, a member of the Lenni Lenap tribe, are buried side-by-side. A blank marker was placed there to mark the spot several years ago.
Gertrude died while a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the nation's first federal off-reservation boarding school, founded in 1879 by former cavalry officer Richard Henry Pratt. The school was intended to educate, but also to teach Native children to assimilate into white culture. Her father had visited the school, but he had died by the time Gertrude went there.
Gertrude died of pneumonia at age 14 while farmed out from the school to work for the Bender family of Bucks County, PA. This practice was known as "outing". She and an unknown Native American girl, a member of the Lenni Lenap tribe, are buried side-by-side. A blank marker was placed there to mark the spot several years ago.
Daughter of Chief Spotted Tail ("Sinte Gleska") of the Brulé Sioux, and niece of Crazy Horse. Her Sioux name was Stands-and-Laughs.
Gertrude died while a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the nation's first federal off-reservation boarding school, founded in 1879 by former cavalry officer Richard Henry Pratt. The school was intended to educate, but also to teach Native children to assimilate into white culture. Her father had visited the school, but he had died by the time Gertrude went there.
Gertrude died of pneumonia at age 14 while farmed out from the school to work for the Bender family of Bucks County, PA. This practice was known as "outing". She and an unknown Native American girl, a member of the Lenni Lenap tribe, are buried side-by-side. A blank marker was placed there to mark the spot several years ago.
Gertrude died while a student at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, the nation's first federal off-reservation boarding school, founded in 1879 by former cavalry officer Richard Henry Pratt. The school was intended to educate, but also to teach Native children to assimilate into white culture. Her father had visited the school, but he had died by the time Gertrude went there.
Gertrude died of pneumonia at age 14 while farmed out from the school to work for the Bender family of Bucks County, PA. This practice was known as "outing". She and an unknown Native American girl, a member of the Lenni Lenap tribe, are buried side-by-side. A blank marker was placed there to mark the spot several years ago.
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