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The article features Plenty Kill of the Oglala Lakotas, who later became Luther Standing Bear of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The school was owned by Colonel Richard Henry Pratt. It claims that Plenty Kill was born at the Great Sioux Reservation (now South Dakota) in late 1868 from Chief Standing Bear and Pretty Face.

The article reports on the effort of Ellen Pfeiffer, a Jamestown resident, in designing and sewing a quilt in remembrance of students of Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania who had passed away. It states that these students traveled from across the U.S. to attend Carlisle Indian Industrial School to learn foreign culture. It notes that the quilt sewn represent of a child whose gravestone resides at the school last called home.

The article focuses on athlete Jim Thorpe known to the Sac and Fox tribe as Wathashcohuk who studied at Carlisle Indian industrial School in Pennsylvania. Accordingly, Thorpe has competed in 15 events, won 8 of them, and become the first and only man ever to win both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon. It states that as students of the Indian School, Thorpe, together with runner Louis Tewanima, have been considered to be wards of the nation. It also mentions that Thorpe has defeated the whole Lafayette track team on a watershed day in 1909.

Provides information on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. Features of the museum dedicated to the Indian school; Number of students enrolled in the Indian school; Death of several children in the Indian school.

Focuses on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School at the Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Move of the Cumberland County Historical Society to dedicate a portion of its museum to the Indian school; Reason for the establishment of the Indian school in 1879; Athletes from the Indian school who became popular.