Seger Colony and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians

In the 1830s the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes separated into northern and southern groups. The material below primarily covers the Southern Cheyenne and the Southern Arapaho, who came to settle on land in the western part of Indian Territory (Oklahoma) in 1870. I have, with the exception of the first photograph, presented things in chronological order to the extent possible.

Note: If you purchased a large-sized aerial photograph of the Seger Indian School at a 1991 auction in El Reno, Oklahoma, please contact me by clicking here. The photograph, marred by splotches, sold for $10.00.


Photographs and Images
  1. Seger's Colony, 1886
  2. Encampment with buffalo meat drying (Arapaho), ca. 1870
  3. Ba-e-cha and and sister (Arapaho), ca. 1870
  4. Issuance of rations at Camp Supply, Indian Territory, ca. 1871
  5. Stump Horn and family (Cheyenne), ca. 1871
  6. Stone Calf and wife (Cheyenne), 1873
  7. Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, 1878
  8. Arapaho and Cheyenne delegation, Washington D. C., 1880
  9. Man-on-a-Cloud and Mad Wolf (Cheyennes), Washington, D.C., 1880
  10. Wolf Robe (Cheyenne), 1898
  11. Lizard and family (Arapaho)
  12. Hartley Ridge Bear at work on his house (Arapaho)
  13. Arapaho Ghost Dance
  14. John H. Seger residence
  15. Girls' dormitory
  16. Boys' dormitory
  17. Boys' dormitory from the south
  18. Bull Looking Around and family (Cheyenne)
  19. Kindergarten classes
  20. Indian employees of the school
  21. Edward Ernest Palmer
  22. Hubbell Big Horse and home (Cheyenne)
  23. Little Bird family and home (Arapaho)
  24. Hannah Little Bird's "best room" (Arapaho)
  25. Seger Colony Indians sitting on dormitory steps
  26. Old Bull family and home (Cheyenne)
  27. Onahoe family and home
  28. Wassana home (Arapaho)
  29. School children at work in the cotton fields
  30. Camp meeting with missionaries, 1896
  31. Cheyenne and Arapaho camp at Seger Colony
  32. Construction of the hospital building, 1899
  33. Creeping Bear and family and home, 1900
  34. Boys cleaning the school grounds
  35. Female students
  36. Male students
  37. Mildred White Buffalo
  38. Rex upon entry to the school
  39. Work stock and a livestock barn
  40. Boys branding cattle and shearing sheep, ca. 1900
  41. A horse named Tom
  42. Council meeting between the Cheyenne and Arapaho and their agent, 1900
  43. School bakery and dining room
  44. School laundry and clothes room
  45. School sewing room
  46. Seger Indian School campus from the west
  47. Seger Indian School and water tower, ca. 1901 and 1990
  48. School park with J. H. Seger feeding the deer
  49. John H. Seger (1846-1928)
  50. Colony, Oklahoma, telephone office

Census Images and Data - Seger Colony Indian School

  1. 1900 Indian staff and students (563KB)
  2. 1900 Non-Indian staff (246KB)

Letters and Other

  1. "The Indian Country" by Henry King, August 1885
  2. Seger's letter regarding Darlington and Caddo Springs Schools, May 28, 1887
  3. Seger's letter regarding Indian settlement at Colony, May 28, 1887

  4. Morgan's letter regarding the construction of the Indian school at Seger Colony, April 1891

 

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