Louise Cavalier Biography


	This biography appears on page 1838 in "History of South 
	Dakota" by Doane Robinson, Vol. II (1904) and was scanned, 
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	LOUISE CAVALIER is a native of the city of Janesville, Wisconsin, 
and was reared and educated in Wisconsin, and in 1881 became identified 
with educational work among the Indians, having first been assigned to 
the Cheyenne agency, in Dewey county, this state, where she labored 
faithfully and acceptably for a long period. She accomplished a mast 
noble work in the agency, where her services were such as to entitle 
them to perpetual recognition and commendation. She continued to be the 
principal teacher at the Cheyenne agency until 1895, when she was sent 
to an agency in Nebraska, where she was superintendent of the schools 
for the ensuing three years, at the expiration of which she was 
assigned by the department of the interior to her present position as 
principal of the Riggs Institute, the admirable Indian school at 
Flandreau, Moody county, South Dakota. She finds pleasure in her work, 
is kind and considerate and gains the affection of her pupils, and 
these are the elements which have contributed to the marked success 
which has been hers.