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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December 11, 1883
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew with an update on the school and the rising number of students. He also writes about his desire to find benefactors interested in creating a new Indian industrial school to…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Fundraising, Enrollment Statistics
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew3 MB
December 11, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests a position to be placed in charge of the outing program at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he has been hesitant to fill this position in order to save money but the increase in outings has now meant the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Employee in Charge of the Outing Program1.14 MB
December 22, 1883
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew thanking him for his "practical interest" in the school in regards to the arrival of two calves for the school farm. Pratt also mentions the illness of over sixty students to…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew1.3 MB
December 25, 1883
J. M. Haworth, Interpreter, follows up on his telegram asking about sending the children of the prisoners of Fort Union, New Mexico to the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Enrolling Fort Union Children at Carlisle634.29 KB
December 26, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding a letter he has received from the Superintendent of the Genoa School to transfer five students to Genoa when the school opens in February 1884. Pratt states that while he is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Five Students to the Genoa School907.92 KB
December 27, 1883
White Eagle requests that Richard Henry Pratt request from Washington D.C. a spring wagon and harness from the Carlisle Indian School. White Eagle also discusses sending more children from the Ponca Agency and returning his son Frank Eagle back…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: White Eagle Requests a Wagon and Harness from Carlisle1.17 MB
December 28, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt notes that the Lincoln Institute has appealed to him to help them fill their quota of students. As a result he proposes to transfer 26 girls including the small girls at Carlisle and four or five large girls who would be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposed Transfer of Small Girls to the Lincoln Institute437.13 KB
1884
Special Case for Suffield
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Miscellaneous
View Document: Special Case for Suffield140.02 KB
January 2, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Lincoln Institute wants 27 students. He also asks if there is any trouble with the reimbursement to his funds that separate vouchers be taken for the Lincoln Institute for those…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Lincoln Institute Transfer and Reimbursement400.8 KB
January 5, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt makes the recommendation to the Office of Indian Affairs of keeping students whose terms are set to expire through the end of the school term in June.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Continuing Enrollment of Students Whose Terms Are Expiring887.65 KB
January 8, 1884 - January 12, 1884
Major General John Pope telegraphs Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, regarding enrolling children from the Apache Nation at Carlisle or other schools.
Lincoln forwards a copy of the telegraph to the Secretary of the Interior along…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Apache Children in Arizona at Carlisle1.33 MB
January 9, 1884
These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statements of Pupils regarding 27 children transferred to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Carlisle Indian School. Those children, from a variety of Nations, had…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statement of Pupils Transferred to Lincoln Institute, 18846.68 MB
January 12, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt notifies the Office of Indian Affairs that Obadiah G. Given is at the San Carlos Agency recruiting students for the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Recruitment of Students
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Informed of Given Recruiting Students at San Carlos Agency315.77 KB
January 12, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs telegraph that he has sent the school physician Obadiah G. Given to recruit students among the Pueblos and Apaches. He also details arrangements he has made with the Atchison, Topeka,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recruiting Students Among the Apache and Pueblo1.15 MB
January 16, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs how many children will from Arkansas City will join Carlisle Indian School Agent and school physician Obadiah G. Given.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Number of Children to Met Carlisle Agent405.85 KB
January 17, 1884 - January 28, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from Baptiste Bayhylle and Ralph J. Weeks regarding a request from a Pawnee Chiefs to visit Carlisle. Pratt provides some context to their request including the fact that many served as scouts during the war…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Pawnee Chiefs to Travel East1.45 MB
January 23, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Mrs. Cox is coming to the Carlisle Indian School to arrange for transferring girls to the Lincoln Institute. Pratt asks for the conclusions from the Office of Indian Affairs about…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information for Transferring Girls to Lincoln Institute370.04 KB
January 24, 1884
Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, forwards a copy of a telegram to inform the Department of the Interior that Lieutenant West has departed San Carlos in charge of 52 children including 47 boys and five girls for Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Apache Students Now Headed for Carlisle from San Carlos1.09 MB
January 30, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt asks of the Office of Indian Affairs if he should pay for the transportation of 27 girls to the Lincoln Institute.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Transportation Costs for Lincoln Transfer368.95 KB
February 1884
Petition for the return of James Thomas, Matilda Thomas, and Mary Johnson from the Carlisle Indian School. The petitioners claim that the children were sent to Carlisle under the false pretense that the school was a school for white children that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Three Onondaga Nation Students878 KB
February 2, 1884
William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency, recommends sending 50 children to the Carlisle Indian School following the positive association with the school. Llewellyn notes that the sooner this is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Llewellyn Requests Authority to Send 50 Students from the Apache Nation to Carlisle888.78 KB
February 2, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt petitions the Office of Indian Affairs to enroll 50 students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies. Pratt notes that the headmen from each Agency having visited the Carlisle Indian School now have a high opinion of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll 50 Students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies888.78 KB
February 8, 1884
William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency, provides a recommendation on which railroad route to send fifty students to the Carlisle Indian School along with ways to limit the cost of involved by sending one…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation for Route for Students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency637.5 KB
February 8, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt details his disappointment the fulfillment he made of a request for boots from the Department of the Interior. Pratt notes that he expected a variety of sizes but was instead only provided with one size. As a result he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Specific Boot Sizes for Upcoming Years650.54 KB
February 18, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Secretary of the Interior regarding a proposal to supply four wagons to Sioux Chiefs rather than having them travel East.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Supply Wagons to Sioux Chiefs654.98 KB