Documents
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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Date: August 4, 1917
These materials contain correspondence from Esther White to Commissioner of Indian Affair Cato Sells, thanking him for arranging her enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
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Esther White Request to Enter Carlisle
Date: August 13 - 18, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by David Hill, a Canadian-born member of the Mohawk Nation, to enroll at Carlisle. His request is denied.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request by David Hill to Enroll
Date: August 17, 1917 - September 14, 1917
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from outing patrons Henry and Clara McEwen that Carlisle allow outing pupils for work on Pennsylvania farms during the upcoming fall. Their request is denied because of curriculum changes at the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Outing Pupils by Henry and Clara McEwen
Date: August 20, 1917 - September 25, 1917
This material includes correspondence regarding two students on the outing program on the farm of Jesse Webster. Webster is requesting an exception to a new outing program guideline that students return to the school for academic work in August, citing wartime government demands for more food production.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence on Outing Guideline Wartime Exception
Date: August 22, 1917
This document contains a letter concerning the appendicitis case of Nora Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Health and Medicine
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Illness of Nora Buffalo