Pratt Request to Bring Students from Cherokee, North Carolina

Date
December 8, 1893

Richard Henry Pratt requests to take a party of students from Cherokee, North Carolina to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that the local boarding school is overcrowded and there is great interest among students and parents to be educated at Carlisle.

Pratt further discusses that it would be inadvisable to bring the Alabama Apaches (the Apache Prisoners of War) to the region.

Time Period
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Repository
National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, Entry 91, box 1045, 1893-#45793
Pratt Request to Bring Students from Cherokee, North Carolina