Mary North, a member of the Arapaho Nation, attended Carlisle from 1879 to 1884. After leaving Carlisle she worked briefly in the Indian Service in Genoa, Nebraska. In 1910 she was a housekeeper in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, and in 1913 she was an assistant matron at the Cheyenne and Arapahoe School in Darlington, Oklahoma. (Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center; Littlefield and Parins, Biobibliography: Supplement, 260)
We all have good times and we went out to the Camp meeting and heard the people talk about God, and we sang two or three hymns and the people it was very much glad to hear us sing. When we were at home in Indian Territory we had nothing to do but play and go to the river and go in swimming and now we are way off from home at school and learning something. I think that is better than swimming and picking berries. I know picking berries is very good, but you will get your hands scratched and then you will be tired to go another time. Now I am very glad to go to Carlisle school and learn something that is all right, and we have good time here too, and I am trying to write a story and I will do the best I can and write it till I get done.
When I get letters from home I always look at them and they would say push hard and learn all you can.11