The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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April 7, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt requests the $18,000 appropriated to purchase the Parker Farm be made available to him in order to pay the current owners.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Appropriated Funds for Purchase of Parker Farm be Made Available537.05 KB
April 9, 1887
Raymond B. Stewart requests to be returned to his home from the Carlisle Indian School. Stewart states that he has not had much opportunity at Carlisle and has been at Carlisle long enough that he would like to return home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Raymond B. Stewart Requests to be Returned Home789.92 KB
April 11, 1887
F. Marcellus Marshall writes to the Office of Indian Affairs seeking to see if Cyrus and John Dickson can return to the Carlisle Indian School. Marshall notes that the Dickson brothers have been working the railroad and on the Albuquerque school…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Marshall Seeks to Have Cyrus and John Dickson Returned to Carlisle604.37 KB
April 12, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the Office of Indian Affairs inquiry regarding Raymond Stewart's request to return home. Pratt notes that Stewart did not want to go home in January and so was placed in the outing program, which he was eventually…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Request for Return of Raymond Stewart605.68 KB
April 13, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the inheritance of Joseph and Josie Vetter. Pratt claims that he forwarded the money due Joseph in February and has receipt from Joseph that he has received the payment…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Finances and Monies
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Documents History of the Vetter Inheritance873 KB
April 15, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the telegraph and post office address is Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Pratt also notes that the most direct railroad routes are the Pennsylvania and Reading line to Harrisburg and then the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Information on Railroad Lines and the Telegraph and Postal Address633.21 KB
April 16, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt provides an explanatory letter for the descriptive list of pupils forwarded to Caldwell, Kansas in March 1887 in addition to one pupil sent to Dakota City, Nebraska and one sent to Arkansas City.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel Departing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Explanatory Letter for Descriptive Statement of Students for March 1887414.68 KB
April 16, 1887
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for May 1887. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Irregular Employees Required for May 1887417.75 KB
April 17, 1887 - April 18, 1887
On the advice of school physician, Obadiah G. Given, Richard Henry Pratt recommends the immediate return to their homes of Esther and Louisa Metoxen.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Esther and Louisa Metoxen863.43 KB
April 18, 1887
Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar orders the Assistant Secretary of the Interior H. L. Muldrew to provide Richard Henry Pratt with orders authorizing him to transfer members of the Apache Nation being held prisoner at Fort Marion in St…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Interior Department Memo for Authorization of Recruiting Students at Fort Marion481.52 KB
April 18, 1887
Secretary of War, William Crowninshield Endicott, informs the Secretary of Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar that he believes that many of those at Fort Marion can be sent to Carlisle. Endicott ends by noting that he will leave it up to Richard Henry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: War Department Memo Regarding Transfer of Apaches from Fort Marion to Carlisle708.27 KB
April 20, 1887
Alfred John Standing responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter providing information on former students Cyrus Dickson and John Dickson (also known at the school as John Dixon). He indicates that Cyrus spent one year in the harness shop and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Response to Inquiry on Cyrus Dickson and John Dickson399.05 KB
April 20, 1887
A group of members from the St. Regis band request from President Grover Cleveland to allow their children to be enrolled at the Lincoln Institute and the Carlisle Indian School. They cite that those schools will allow their children to better…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: St. Regis Band Requests to Allow Children to Enroll at Lincoln and Carlisle1.21 MB
April 23, 1887 - May 2, 1887
Secretary of War, William Crowninshield Endicott, responds to a letter from the Secretary of the Interior regarding a protest lodged by the Arizona Governor about returning the prisoners of war held at Fort Marion. Endicott notes that those not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Secretary of War Memo Regarding Moving Chiricahua POWs1.58 MB
April 25, 1887
Monthly report of Lieutenant Loomis L. Langdon on the prisoners under his charge at Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas. Langdon writes that the health of the prisoners is good and they are involved in various work projects including digging wells as…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Monthly Report of Commanding Office in Charge of Fort Pickens and Barrancas1.39 MB
April 25, 1887
Loomis L. Langdon, Commander of the Fort Pickens and Fort Barrancas, provides his monthly report of the Indian prisoners he is in charge of at the Fort. In his report he includes a request to have Jose or Go-so be enrolled at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Jose or Go-so at Carlisle941.59 KB
April 27-30, 1887
These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding the discharge of sisters Esther and Louisa Metoxen from the Carlisle Indian School and their transfer to their home in the Green Bay Agency of Wisconsin.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statement of Pupils Discharged to Green Bay Agency, 18871.13 MB
April 27, 1887
Final report of the prisoners held at Fort Marion including an account of births, deaths, and transfers to the Carlisle Indian School, Fort Pickens, and Mount Vernon Barracks.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Final Report of Prisoners Held at Fort Marion1.21 MB
April 27, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from George W. Scott, the Superintendent of the Fort Stevenson School, regarding sending Carlisle student George Thomas to take over their harness shop. Pratt notes that he has had no reply from the Office of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Seeking Update to Transportation for George Thomas to Fort Stevenson School498.22 KB
April 30, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt informs the John D. C. Atkins, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, that he has arrived back at Carlisle with 62 members of the Chiricahua band from Fort Marion. He ends by noting that he hopes the Atkins will now visit the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Arrives Back at Carlisle with 62 Students from Fort Marion370.69 KB
May 4, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to produce and sell fifty uniforms for students at the school run by the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions in Sitka, Alaska.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Authority to Sell 50 Uniforms to Sitka Mission School645.79 KB
May 4, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that M. B. Cochran has requested Maggie Worrington be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt requests that transportation for Worrington be placed with Cochran to allow…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Maggie Worrington451.71 KB
May 5, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a statement from the Second Auditor of the Treasury in settlement of his accounts from the fourth quarter of 1884 to and including the fourth quarter of 1885. Pratt goes through a list of transportation costs that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Explanation of Disallowances Made By Treasury Department in Account Settlements1.53 MB
May 5, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Secretary of the Interior that Samuel C. Armstrong, Superintendent of the Hampton Institute, has declined to enroll four married Chiricahua students from Fort Marion. Pratt writes that the students will be taken…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Hampton Will Not Enroll Eight Married Chiricahua Students581.75 KB
May 9, 1887
Request from Richard Henry Pratt to permit Louis Bayhylle to return home with his father, Baptiste Bayhylle, with travel provided to Arkansas City via the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Louis Bayhylle3.03 MB