Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1793 - 1999. Correspondence Concerning Estelle Reel, Superintendent of Indian Schools

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Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1793 - 1999. Correspondence Concerning Estelle Reel, Superintendent of Indian Schools

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Meyer, Estelle Reel, 1862-1959

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Estelle Reel was born in 1862 in the State of Illinois. In 1895 she was elected state superintendent of public instruction, the first woman in Wyoming ever elected to a state office. In 1898 she was appointed by the president to the position of superintendent of Indian schools and special disbursing officer. In this position she served for twelve years. She was an indefatigable investigator of conditions in the Indian schools all over the United States. She traveled extensively by train, buckboa...