This was originally published on March 7, 2014.
I have not yet located Herbert on the Indian Rolls through the 1910s, however I believe he was at the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona at this time, both as a student and an employee. In several articles published in November of 1915 in the El Paso Herald (El Paso, Texas) Herbert is listed as a school delegate present at a Y.M.C.A. convention.
“Mexican Y.M.C.A. for Mexicans’ Work Beyond American Leaders.” El Paso Herald(El Paso, Texas). November 13, 1915.
On December 1, 1916 Herbert Yernipcut married Carrie Hendrix in Anadarko, Caddo County, Oklahoma.
The Phoenix Indian School’s newspaper, The Native American, of which Herbert was an employee, published a marriage announcement on December 9, 1916:
Miss Carrie Hendrix has resigned as assistant at the Kiowa hospital, Lawton, Oklahoma. Carrie graduated from Phoenix School in the class of 1916 and was very active in the religious work at this school, being particularly interested in our Junior society. It is reported that she has become the wife of Herbert Yernipcut, one of our old standbys in the NATIVE AMERICAN print shop. We extend our congratulations to this most worthy young couple and hope we will have the pleasure of a visit from them among their many friends at the Phoenix School.
A photograph also appeared in The Native American of the print shop employees (I apologize for the blurriness):
THE NATIVE AMERICAN PRINTERS
Standing, left to right – Mr. Lawrence, instructor; Herbert Yernipcut, Comanche; Isaac Porter, Pima; Gee Gage, Pima; Dan King, Pima; John Lee Black, Yuma; Henry Jackson, Otoe and Stewart Lewis, Pima (foreman).
Sitting, left to right – Emerson Eutekawa, Hopi; David Kewanyousiema, Hopi; Dale Laidlow, Pima; Bennett Chowanyla, Hopi; Vincent Thomas, Pima; Walter McKinley, Osage and Peter Blaine, Papago.
Herbert Yernipcut, The Native American, 1916.
To be continued…
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