Letters/Correspondence

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Florence Edwards at the Carlisle Indian School, where her sister Delia was a student. Edwards required an exemption from the Office of Indian Affairs in order to enroll due to her age.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from the father of Cody Printup to have Printup visit home over the summer vacation. The request was denied due to a policy of Superintendent Moses Friedman to have students go on the outing program rather than return home to continue their education and training.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Abe Colonahaski, a member of the Cherokee Nation, to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Colonahaski sought an exemption from the age requirement to be admitted. The request was granted by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by F. L. Kern to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Kern required an exemption from the Office of Indian Affairs to be admitted due to his age. The Office did not grant the exemption.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James (Jimmie) Blue Bird to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Blue Bird sought an exemption from the maximum age requirement in order to enroll. The request was granted from the Office of Indian Affairs.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Cary W. Hartman to enroll at Carlisle a Native student from Canada. The request was denied by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs due to the fact that the student was not a ward of the United States or an American Citizen. He suggested Hartman reach out to the Department of Indian…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Major Frederick S. Foltz to enroll Engracio Baculy, a minor from the Philippines in his care, at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was granted on the condition that Foltz cover all of Baculy's expenses.

Secretary R. A. Ballinger informs Senator N. B. Scott that, if the Shenandoah Tribe would like to have the Carlisle Indian School Band perform on July 4 for them, he should write to the school's superintendent.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Nettie LaVatta to have her four children-Emma, Elizabeth, George, and Benton-remain at the Carlisle Indian School for the full term of their enrollments. LaVatta later requested having her son George accompany her West to the Fort Hall Reservation. Further information regarding the…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Oakley Pierce to have his son Mitchell Pierce returned to his home from Carlisle.

Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke requests Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to create a report on student outings from July 1, 1909 to April 1, 1910. A few days later Hauke asks for a statement outlining the overall plan for the outing system. Friedman sends blank copies of each of the forms used in implementing outings and a rule…

These materials include a request from Joseph Loudbear to return home following his graduation. Loudbear desired to assist his uncle on working Loudbear's property. Loudbear later rescinded his request in order to finish his term of enrollment on the outing system.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to release Max Mixsooke from his term of enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was granted.

These materials include correspondence regarding student Judson Bertrand's work at the office of Carlisle dentist Dr. C. E. Wogan. There was some dispute about Bertrand's role as well as where he could pursue training as a dentist.

Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell 250 bushels of rye. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine grants Friedman permission to do so.

H. C. Edlridge compliments Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine by saying that he was greatly impressed by the Carlisle Indian School's students' performance in his opera "The Captain of Plymouth," which was performed at Commencement. Valentine thanks Edlridge for the compliment and states that he was impressed as well.

These material include correspondence regarding a request by Mitchell Connors to have his daughter Nancy Connors returned home for the summer break from Carlisle.

These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides receipts from the Assistant Treasurer for the account "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" totaling $161, 719.97 of the total $164,000 appropriation. 

Chief of the Finance Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick provides Friedman a list of discrepancies that…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James N. Coon to return his niece Ida Coon Sands to her home.

Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke encloses a letter to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman. The letter, from Hattie E. Hudson, requested to secure female students for housework in New Jersey. Hauke requests that Friedman send Hudson information on the outing system.

Walter S. Davis asks Congressman John H. Rothermel to influence the Carlisle Indian School for him because he would like to have "two of the trained servants" from the school, but the school's policy is to not send young women to cities the size of Reading, which is where Davis lives. 

Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine…

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns triplicate copy of Arrivals and Departures of Pupils for the third quarter of 1910.

Acting Supervisor Elsie E. Newton from Muskogee, Oklahoma asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if "two Cherokee boys" from the "unrestricted class of Indians" could attend his school and how much it would cost. Friedman sends two applications to Newton and informs her that board and tuition costs $167 and that the potential…

Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch requests that Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman send information about the outing system to J. J. Gardner. Friedman informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he has sent Gardner an outing application and a copy of Outing Rules.