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Running Elk and Black Eagle

Description

Running Elk and Black Eagle were students at Carlisle Indian Industrial School and members of the school’s football team, who were touring England. “[H]appening to be in Newport, [they] spent the evening at the Lyceum” attending a performance of A White Man. However, there is no corroborating evidence of Carlisle students being in Britain at this time or even of students of this name attending the school in this period.

Bibliographic sources

“Theatrical Gossip,” The Era, 15 August 1908, 14. For a description of the play performed by the same company, see “Amusements,” Irish News and Belfast Morning News, 16 February, 1909, 8.