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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October 20, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt requests authorization to buy books listed in letter to be used to train students in nursing as well as for the use of the school hospital.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Various Books Requested for Nursing Training and Hospital486.42 KB
October 23, 1891 - October 26, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report of school physician C. R. Dixon regarding a shortage in the invoice of various medical supplies. Pratt notes that the school only asks for what it needs.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Medical Supplies and Materials
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Report on Shortage of Medical Supplies1.2 MB
October 26, 1891
B. P. Shuler, U.S. Indian Agent for the White Earth Agency, provides a report to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs including on pupils sent to Fort Totten and a delegation to be sent Carlisle. Shuler states that all of the students sent to Fort…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Difficulties in Sending Children to Carlisle from White Earth798.52 KB
October 26, 1891
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1892 amounting to $80.00 for traveling and incidental expenses attending an Indian school superintendents conference in Kansas.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1892643.18 KB
October 26, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt writes to Thomas J. Morgan informing him that he is printing the rules and regulations for enforcing compulsory attendance in the Red Man. In addition, Pratt writes of a letter of former student George Means that he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Provides Update on Rules and Regulations and Article by Harries743.13 KB
October 31, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt informs Thomas J. Morgan that the Carlisle Indian School has enough students to carry out its appropriation but could enroll additional students. He further states that the school has more success when an employee recruits the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Comments on Recruitment Methods459.66 KB
November 2, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to Thomas J. Morgan's annual report on the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt states that the numbers used in the report present Carlisle in an unfair light by including transportation costs in their funds while not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Office Letter Regarding Report on Carlisle822.15 KB
November 5, 1891
C. R. Dixon, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for October 1891.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Monthly Sanitary Report of Sick and Wounded, October 18911.35 MB
November 6, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that there are differences between the quantities of school books requested and what was received. Pratt states that he hopes the differences were not denied or cut without his consultation…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Difference in School Supplies Received to What was Requested 359.37 KB
November 6, 1891
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during October 1891. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students - Irregular Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, October 18913.7 MB
November 12, 1891
These materials include a descriptive statement of students regarding 3 individuals sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Sac and Fox Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Sac and Fox Agency, 1891624.95 KB
November 17, 1891 - November 18, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt forwards comments made by the school's doctor, C. R. Dixon, to an article on the treatment of the eyes of Indian pupils. Dixon comments that a number of the treatments recommended while sound should only be used by trained…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dixon's Comments on the Treatment of Eyes Throughout the Indian Service1.08 MB
November 18, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase various garden seeds for the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Seeds for the Carlisle Indian School535.62 KB
November 20, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt informs Thomas J. Morgan that Eliza Choteau claims she has written to the Office of Indian Affairs twice regarding annuity money owed to her and her sister. Pratt notes that Choteau is "a Seneca of the Quapaw Agency" and that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Claim of Eliza Choteau Regarding Annuity Money521.4 KB
November 20, 1891 - November 23, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Thomas J. Morgan regarding accepting students from Arizona. Pratt states that he would not hesitate to accept pupils during the winter. In addition he discusses delaying their enrollment to the spring…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Transfer of Students From Arizona1.36 MB
November 21, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt notes that C. R. Dixon, School Physician, recommends that pupils have a liberal supply of fruit available. With the delay in dried fruit, Pratt requests authority to purchase 110 bushels of apples.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Authority to Purchase 110 Bushels of Apples529.54 KB
November 23, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt writes to Thomas J. Morgan on behalf of Captain Brown of the Pine Ridge Agency. Brown seeks to enlist and command his own company of Indian soldiers at the agency which Pratt approves of in order to create no disharmony…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Agency/Reservation Business
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Writes to Recommend Pine Ridge Agent be in Charge of Troops478.11 KB
November 24, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that none of the party of seven students from Red Lake have arrived, but the one from the White Earth Agency who was to accompany them has arrived at Carlisle. Pratt further states that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Update on Red Lake Party and Proposal to Send School Employee for Students534.82 KB
November 28, 1891
Festus Pelone requests permission from Thomas J. Morgan to be returned to his home during the winter. Pelone writes that he has no money in the bank due to being unfairly punished by Richard Henry Pratt for leaving his outing.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of Festus Pelone to be Returned Home613.28 KB
December 1891
Richard Henry Pratt provides a report responding to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs on the needs of the Carlisle Indian School. Included are discussions on the need for more land, additional educational needs, and industrial training…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Land Transactions, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Indian School System, Factors Affecting Student Recruitment, Discipline - Punishment, Printing Department, Student Living Conditions, School Library, Student Transfers, World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Students Running Away, School Employees - Housing, School Utilities, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Books Used at School, School Farms - Productivity, Medical Examinations of Potential Students, Opposition to Carlisle from Agency Clergy, Student Illness, Music Instruction, Supplies – Requests and Fulfillment, Recordkeeping at the School, Discipline - Student Court Process
Format: Reports
View Document: Report Responding to Questions on the Carlisle Indian School5.61 MB
December 2, 1891
C. R. A. Scobey, U.S. Indian Agent for the Fort Peck Agency, writes to the Office of Indian Affairs letter objecting to a letter from Richard Henry Pratt to Smoker. Scobey claims that the agency has sent sixty students to Carlisle and that all of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Scobey Objects to Letter from Pratt to Uncle of Student1.26 MB
December 3, 1891
B. F. Gilkeson, Comptroller in the Second Comptroller's Office, responds to Thomas J. Morgan's letter regarding using interest generated from the Osage Fund to pay for Osage students at the Carlisle Indian School. Gilkeson writes that his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Comptroller Opinion on Osage Fund Paying for Students at Carlisle1.05 MB
December 3, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt replies to two Office of Indian Affairs letters regarding the construction of the Boiler House and the pay of student Nellie Carey as a matron.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Response to Office Letters Regarding Boiler House and Nellie Carey741.12 KB
December 4, 1891
C. R. Dixon, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for November 1891.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Monthly Sanitary Report of Sick and Wounded, November 18911.6 MB
December 4, 1891 - December 15, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from former student Co-zed (Below) requesting assistance in obtaining a shop at the Kiowa Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Below Co-zed's Letter Requesting Shop717.27 KB