The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.2, page 91, Oct. 1880, U. of Illinois Press

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OCTOBER · 1880 ~ Of the twelve black men appointed to West Point between 1870 and 1886, only three graduated. Henry 0. Flipper, appointed in 1873 and the first black graduate, reported in his autobiography (~878) that he was avoided by virtually all white cadets at West Point. 2 Shellbanks Industrial Home, located on Hampton Institute's Hemenway farm about five miles from campus. 3 Julia St. Cyr, a fifteen-year-old half-blood Winnebago, attended Hampton from 1880 to 1885 and returned home to Nebraska to teach. 4 Sophia Little Bear was a Nebraska Winnebago, age twelve, who attended Hampton from 1880 to 1885; she later married an Indian who had attended government school. 5 Annie Lyman, a Sioux from the Dakota Territory and daughter of an army officer, entered Hampton in 1879 at the age of sixteen and remained until 1885. She returned home to marry a farmer. 6 Mary Hinman, a Sioux from the Dakota Territory, was twelve when she entered Hampton in 1879. She left in 1885. After an unfortunate marriage, she died the following year. 7 Kawhat, brother of White Breast, changed his name to Thomas Suckley. A Mandan from the Dakota Territory, he was twelve when he entered Hampton in 1878. He remained at Hampton until 18 and continued his education at Ft. Stevenson, N.D., Genoa, Nebr., and Carlisle, Pa. g George Bushotter (~860-g~) made a substantial contribution to the ethnography of the Dakota Indians. Bushotter was a Dakota whose mother belonged to the Teton tribe and whose father belonged to the Yankton tribe. As a baby Bushotter narrowly escaped an accidental death, and in consequence of this his father named him Oteri, meaning ''difficult,'' to characterize his life. Bushotter was sent to Hampton and there his name was recorded as George Bush, Oteri; afterward he became known as George Bushotter. He attended Hampton from 1878 to 18 and from 1883 to 1885. He is also reported to have studied for a time at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Va. In March 1887 he was employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology as an assistant to Rev. James Owen Dorsey (~848-95), an ethnologist studying the Siouan Indian language family, of which Dakota is a part. Under Dorsey's direction Bushotter wrote in Dakota some 187 texts (over a,ooo manuscript pages), consisting of folk tales, accounts of social life, customs, and games, and an autobiography describing his life prior to entering Hampton. During the summers Dorsey worked in Hedgesville, W.Va., to avoid the humid Washington climate. There Bushotter met and married Elvina Hull. The couple traveled to Dakota for a brief period, during which Bushotter was employed as a teacher to Dakota Indian children. Forced to return to Hedgesville due to poor health, he practiced the wood carving he had learned at Hampton, carving the pews for a local church and doing much ornamental work. He was a popular local figure, known for his early-morning jogging around the township in Indian moccasins and for his ability with the bow and arrow. On his death of tuberculosis in 1892, an obituary in the Martinsburg Independent reported that during his five years' residence in Hedgesville, Bushotter ''won many friends by his genial and social disposition.'' His wife lived on until ~ 946. After Dorsey's death other scholars became interested in Bushotter's texts. John R. Swanton, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, attempted to prepare them for publication in 1909. He did not complete the work, and the texts were sent 9I