Document 2 (primary) A School's Daily Schedule from 1912

Cushman Indian School, Tacoma, Wash.
February 1, 1912
Monday

5:45 A.M.-- Reveille. (wake-up)

5:55 to 6:10 -- Setting Up Exercise & Drill.
6:12 -- Air Beds.
6:12 to 6:45 -- Recreation.
6:45 -- First Call for Breakfast.
6:55 -- Assembly. Roll Call.
7:00 -- Breakfast.
7:30 to 7:35 -- Care of teeth.
7:35 to 7:40 -- Make beds.
7:40 to 7:55 -- Police Quarters.
7:55 -- Industrial Call.
8:00 -- Industrial work begins. School detail at liberty.
(The use of this period is at pupils' discretion. The more studious at books; those inclined to athletics make
use of this time for practice. Some pupils practice music lessons, etc.)
8:50 -- First School Call. Roll Call and Inspection.
9:00 -- School.
11:30 -- Recall. Pupils at liberty.
11:55 -- Assembly and Roll Call.
12:00 -- Dinner.
12:30 -- Recreation.
12:50 -- School and Industrial Call. Inspection.
1:00 P.M -- Industrial work and School.
3:30 -- School dismissed. School detail at liberty.
(Time spent in same general manner as morning detail utilizes period from 8:00 to 8:50.)
4:30 -- Industrial recall. Drill and Gymnasium classes.
5:15 -- First Call.
5:25 -- Assembly. Roll Call.
5:30 -- Supper.
6:00 -- Care of teeth.
6:10 -- Recreation.
7:15 -- First Call.
7:25 -- Roll Call. Inspection.
7:30 -- Lecture.
(This period varies in length. Men prominent in education or civic affairs address the pupils.)
8:15 -- Call to Quarters. Older pupils prepare lessons; intermediate children play.
8:45 -- Pupils retire.
8:55 -- Check.
9:00 -- Taps.
Children in front of girls' dormintory building, Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912.
Photographer: Ferdinand Brady

The Tulalip Indian School opening on Jan. 23, 1905, and during the next two years it held enrollment of 200
students. The boys and girls lived in separate dormitories. Children as young as six years old attended the
boarding school. Older boys and girls were each assigned two of the youngsters to take care of and assist in
getting ready for school. Shown in this photo are the youngest students, lined up in front of the girls’
dormitory. The upper floor contained the bedrooms (including a sick room), the middle floor had a music room
in the left wing, a reading room in the right, and a dining room in the center. Showers and a play room were in
the basement.
Collection: Brady Collection
Repository: Musuem of History and Industry, Seattle
Tulalip students in school uniform pose behind two priests, including Eugene Casimir Chirouse, Washington
State, ca. 1865.

Yakima School girls, Fort Simcoe, Washington. A large group of girls unifornmly dressed in plain long sleeve
dresses, pose under a building at Fort Simcoe.
Collection: Estelle Reel
Repository: Eastern Washington State Historical Society
 American Horse with children and relatives during an 1882 visit to the Carlisle Indian School.
J.N. Choate Collection, digitized by C. Scott Lambert, Courtesy of CCHS. May not be used without
permission.

Learning finger songs at Carlisle Indian School, ca. 1900.

Frances Benjamin Johnston photo
Courtesy Cumberland County Historical Society
Apache children on arrival at the Carlisle Indian School (Pennsylvania) wearing traditional clothing.

Apache children at the Carlisle School four months later.

The dining hall at Phoenix Indian School was an important stage for learning Anglo ways and breaking
traditional ones. ca. 1904

Cheyenne woman named Woxie Haury in ceremonial dress, and, in wedding portrait with husband. Two
studio portraits; on left she poses with her hair down, in a beaded & fringed dress, necklace, and beaded
moccasins. On right she wears a western-style wedding dress (full length skirt, boned bodice, hair pinned up
under a lace veil) and stands beside a young man in white tie.
Photograph: Woxie Haury
Collection: Estelle Reel
Repository: Eastern Washington State Historical Society
Chemawa Indian School small boys dorm, Salem, Oregon. 1901.
A large group of small boys sit on the grass in front of a three story building at the Chemawa Indian School.
Beside them stands a woman holding a bicycle. Another school building can be seen on the right.
Collection: Estelle Reel
Repository: Eastern Washington State Historical Society

Learning sewing at St. Mary's Mission School in Omak, Washington.

Father Stephen de Rouge (former French Count de Rouge of the Chateau des Rues) began St. Mary's
Mission in 1886 in a small "log house without a floor, window or chimney...". In 1887 he moved to land offered
by chief Smitkin along Omak Creek.
Teaching vocational skills in the Phoenix Indian School's bakery.
Courtesy Salt River Project Research Archives, Phoenix.
Kitchen girls, Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912. Every student at the boarding school spent at least half of his or
her day working in some part of the operation. Boys rotated about every six weeks between jobs as
carpenter, engineer, farmer or dairyman; girls were assigned to sewing, darning, laundry and kitchen
work. The students raised most of the school’s food on the grounds and prepared it in the kitchen. In this
photo, Mrs. Ryman, the cook, supervises bread baking. Identified workers are: Laura Wilbur (Swinomish),
kneeling at left; Julia Abbott (Lummi), second from left; Catherine Edwards (Swinomish); and Isabella Louke
(Muckleshoot).
Collection: Brady Collection
Repository: Museum of History and Industry, Seattle.

Boys hoeing garden, Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912.

Photographer: Ferdinand Brady
Boys were assigned to tend the school garden during their daily work period. They grew all of the vegetables
eaten in the school dining room. The young fruit trees in the background grew to become part of the large
orchard that produced fruit for the school. Here, several young boys pose for the camera, along with the
school’s farmer and his wife and child.
Collection: Brady Collection
Repository: Museum of History and Industry, Seattle
Wood chopping crew, Tulalip Indian School, ca. 1912.
Photographer: Ferdinand Brady
The steam boilers which supplied heat and power to the school buildings required a constant supply of wood.
As part of their regular work assignment, the young men chopped, split, and stacked hundreds of cords of
wood. Shown in this photo are Sebastian Williams (second from left), Woody Loughrey (fifth from left) and
Clarence Shelton (third from right).

Student Soldiers at the Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1930.