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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February 20, 1888
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for March 1888. 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 March 1888416.69 KB
February 20, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs of a request from the Oneida Agency to enroll six students at the Carlisle Indian Schools. Pratt requests that transportation be arranged for six from De Pere, Wisconsin to Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation for Six Students from Oneida471.61 KB
February 23, 1888
Student William Brown writes to the Office of Indian Affairs asking permission to return to his home on the Pine Ridge Agency in the early spring in order to prepare his farm. Brown also notes that he is engaged to another student from Pine Ridge…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: William Brown Requests to Return Home563.04 KB
February 25, 1888 - March 29, 1888
Comanche Chief at Pawnee Agency writes to his daughter [not identified here, but Phoebe Howell] asking her to have Richard Henry Pratt inquire about the annual money for the agency. He also writes that since his daughter stayed at the Carlisle…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Agency/Reservation Business
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry from Comanche Chief Regarding Annual Money952.63 KB
February 27, 1888
Jesse Knox requests to have children from the Mille Lac and Sandy Lake Agencies enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Mille Lac and Sandy Lake Students at Carlisle1.59 MB
February 29, 1888
Robert A. Parke, the Passenger Agent for the South-Eastern District of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, quotes the Office of Indian Affairs a rate of $12.15 per ticket for six first class tickets from De Pere, Wisconsin to Carlisle,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Quote for Six Tickets for Travel from De Pere, WI to Carlisle430.62 KB
February 29, 1888
Percy G. Smith, City Passenger Agent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company, provides a quote for transporting students from De Pere, Wisconsin to Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Quote for Tickets for Travel from De Pere, WI to Carlisle2.28 MB
March 1, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs if their letter regarding Hartley Ridge Bear provides him authority to cover transportation for Ridge Bear from Carlisle to the Cheyenne Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel Departing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Authority to Cover Transportation for Hartley Ridge Bear314.86 KB
March 3, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to return Harry Raven and Henry Outa to their homes due to ill health.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Harry Raven and Henry Outa666.63 KB
March 8, 1888
Acting Secretary of War, Brigadier General S. V. Benet informs the Department of the Interior that he has issued orders to the commanding officer in charge of Fort Barrancas to transfer custody of Katie to Richard Henry Pratt in order for her to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Orders Issued to Transfer Katie to the Carlisle Indian School879.22 KB
March 12, 1888
Anna L. Dawes informs the Office of Indian that she has received a request from a member of the Cherokee Nation to continue her education at either the Carlisle Indian School or the Hampton Institute. Dawes asks if this can be accomplished…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll a Member of the Cherokee Nation694.43 KB
March 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that 101 pupils are due to be returned to their homes after having spent five years at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt digresses from his request to cover transportation for these pupils…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Informs Office of Upcoming Student Departures1.42 MB
March 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests confirmation from the Office of Indian Affairs that his actions in placing seven more tickets at De Pere, Wisconsin through the Pennsylvania Railroad due to a request from the Oneida Nation to send six more students…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Seven More Tickets for Oneida Students401.93 KB
March 17, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that his physician has recommended sending home four students from the Pine Ridge Agency due to poor health. Pratt requests that the transportation to Pine Ridge be provided to him and that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Four Students from Pine Ridge to Their Home468.04 KB
March 22, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests a telegram regarding a promise that the President and Secretary gave to a group of visiting Apache chiefs to send home two students at the Carlisle Indian School with them to serve as interpreters. Pratt recommends…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests Telegram Regarding Sending Apache Students Home as Interpreters438.43 KB
March 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Henry Outa is too weak to travel to his home. Instead his ticket is being used to return Harry Raven, who was also being sent home to illness.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Change in Plans for Returning Two Students435.66 KB
March 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests that a ticket be provided for an escort of Oneida students back to De Pere, Wisconsin.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Travel for Non-Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Ticket for Oneida Escort450.95 KB
March 24, 1888
Cover letter forwarding descriptive statement of students who arrived from De Pere, Wisconsin on March 23, 1888 and those who departed for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency and the San Carlos Agency.
Note: The descriptive statement itself…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Enrollment Lists, Student Travel Departing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cover Letter Forwarding Descriptive List of Students for March 23, 1888264.56 KB
March 31, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt asks the Office of Indian Affairs to confirm his actions in placing two additional tickets for girls from the Green Bay Agency at the request of the U.S. Indian agent for the agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Two Additional Tickets for Green Bay Agency Students396.55 KB
April 4, 1888 - April 16, 1888
Charles Robinson, Superintendent of the Haskell Institute, forwards a letter from Richard Henry Pratt requesting from the U.S. Indian Agent at the Pawnee Agency transportation for Pollock to the Carlisle Indian School. In the letter E. C. Osborne…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment and Transfer of William Pollock to Carlisle1.37 MB
April 4, 1888
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1888 amounting to $10,658.30 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $7,292.50 for regular employee pay.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Second Quarter 18881.49 MB
April 5, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt notes that the Carlisle Indian School has been operating for eight years and has produced a number of students capable of becoming teachers. He proposes establishing a normal school course at Carlisle to better prepare future…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Establish a Normal School Course at Carlisle1010.6 KB
April 5, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs actions he has taken regarding Simon Powlas, the escort of the Oneida Nation students recently arrived at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that as Powlas had already waited a number…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Travel for Non-Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Oneida Student Escort to Green Bay Agency548.56 KB
April 8, 1888 - April 9, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt forwards an anonymous letter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania regarding three members of the Omaha Nation in a show. Pratt recommends that something be done to aid the individuals in question.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Anonymous Letter Regarding Show in Pennsylvania677.91 KB
April 9-11, 1888
These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 4 individuals transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Green Bay Agency, and 4 individuals discharged from Carlisle and transferred back to their…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports