Bratley, Jesse H.

Jesse H. Bratley was born in Brown Town, Wisconsin in 1867. In 1893 he joined the Government Service to be a teacher. Over the next ten years he taught or presided at schools on several Indian Reservations, including Indian Day School on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, 1895 ??? 1899; Cantonment Boarding School, Oklahoma, 1899 ??? 1900; Havasupai at Cataract, Arizona, 1902 -1903; Hopi Day School, Arizona, 1902 ??? 1903 and Seminole, Florida, 1910. In the 1890s, Bratley introduced sub-irrigation methods, blacksmithing, and other life skills. He took numerous photographs of the Sioux Indians while he taught at the Rosebud Reservation and other Indian day schools.