Discipline - General

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.

These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Peirce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Peirce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations, focused on industrial curricula and student…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Montreville Yuda to F. H. Abbott, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to leave the Carlisle Indian School while remaining in the borough of Carlisle to work. School officials were opposed to this course of action, citing past difficulties with former students interfering with…

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.

These materials include a typed and hand-written copy of a letter from J. F. Murray, praising the Carlisle Indian School. Murray discusses numerous topics, including Carlisle's assimilationist mission, appropriations and finances, discipline, local reactions to the school, and the school's management.

Rev. Mark E. Stock, the Catholic priest whose church Carlisle students attend, asks Superintendent Moses Friedman to allow female students to walk to his church without a chaperone or to assign a chaperone for them.

Friedman forwards Stock's letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, stating that it would be unsafe to send the…

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Paul Jones to his home in Pendleton, Oregon from Carlisle.

These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Ethel Williams.

These materials include legal documents and correspondence regarding charges filed against Superintendent Moses Friedman after an inspection and investigation of the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the documents are the official charges against Friedman, his answers to those charges, correspondence regarding the charges, and the…

These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Louis Schweigman to his home. Schweigman complained that he was returned to his home without warning. Superintendent Moses Friedman denied the claim, and noted Schweigman's temporary enrollment status. Friedman also complained to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the Principal…

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Charles Kelsey.

A typed transcript of Henry Broker's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Broker was a student at Carlisle.

Broker testifies about unfair expulsion during Superintendent Friedman's administration especially as it related to complaints about school staff reading student correspondence.

In…

The typed transcript of Jeanette Pappin's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Pappin was a student at Carlisle. In this document she is referred to as Jeannette Patten.

Pappin discusses the harsh demeanour of the Matron Anna Ridenour and friction between the students and Superintendent Friedman…

A typed transcript of Louis Brown's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Brown was a student at Carlisle.

Brown discusses the use of force by the disciplinarians of the school and the biased way punishment is given. He claims that students receive punishments disproportionate to the offence they…

The typed transcript of Mamie Richardson's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Richardson was a student at Carlisle. In the testimony she is referred to as May Richardson.

Richardson discusses the friction between the female students and Matron Anna Ridenour, her inability to take music lessons…

The typed transcript of Rosa B. La Flesche's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time La Flesche worked at Carlisle as the Outing Manager, though she previously attended the school under the name Rosa Bourassa.

In her testimony La Flesche critiques Superintendent Friedman's administration in regards…

A typed transcript of Zepheniah Simons' testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Simons had just begun a job as caretaker of the athletics quarters (after attending the school as a student).

While Simons does express disappointment at the relaxed discipline at Carlisle, most of his testimony…

The typed transcript of Anna H. Ridenour's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Ridenour was the matron at Carlisle.

In her testimony Ridenour explains her perspective on the use of corporal punishment on Julia Hardin and answers questions about the friction between herself and the students in…

The typed transcript of Bertha Canfield's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Canfield oversaw the sewing room at the school.

In her testimony Canfield critiques the administration of Superintendent Friedman on the basis that he does not take any interest in the well-being or morality of the…

The typed transcript of Emma H. Foster's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time she worked as a teacher at Carlisle.

In her testimony Foster explains what she thinks is the cause of the friction between the students and school administration. She also answers questions about the use of corporal…

The typed transcript of Fisk Goodyear's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. (His name is spelled Fiske Goodyear in this transcript.) At the time Goodyear was working at a local coal and lime business, but had previously worked at Carlisle as storekeeper and clerk in the 1890's.

In his testimony Goodyear…

The typed transcript of Harvey K. Meyer's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Meyer was a clerk at Carlisle.

In his testimony Meyer answers questions about the state of discipline and quality of food at Carlisle.

In the published version of this testimony Meyer's section begins on…

The typed transcript of Hattie M. McDowell's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time McDowell was a teacher at Carlisle.

In her testimony McDowell explains why she thinks Superintendent Friedman is ill-suited to administer the school.

In the published version of this testimony McDowell's…

The typed transcript of J. W. Henderson's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Henderson lived next door to the school.

In his testimony Henderson says that he has rarely seen a Carlisle student intoxicated and has rarely had problems with unruliness on the part of the students.

In the…

The typed transcript of John Whitwell's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Whitwell was the principal teacher at Carlisle.

In his testimony Whitwell begins by summarizing his duties as principal teacher then discusses negative influences on the academic program and narrates the difficulties in…