These materials include an inquiry into the enrollment and employment status of William Henry "Lonestar" Dietz at Chilocco and Carlisle. The Office of Indian Affairs was asked to provide records about Dietz to clarify Dietz's citizenship, after he claimed exemption to the draft for the First World War based on his Indian heritage.
Letters/Correspondence
March 13 - September 4, 1919
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 14-28, 1919
Inquiry from Charles Samuel to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding having an outing student placed at his home.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 14, 1919
W. H. Bowers requests assistance from the Office of Indian Affairs in securing an outing student from the Carlisle Indian School following the school's closure.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 15 - 25, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the academic record of Charles Ape-Kaum following his discharge of the Navy and prior to taking up his studies again at the Central State Normal School in Edmond, Oklahoma.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 24 - May 3, 1919
Minnie Williams, who is "partly of Indian descent," asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there are any Indian schools in Connecticut and for information on the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Williams that there aren't any Indian schools in Connecticut and that Carlisle closed in 1918 and was converted to a military hospital…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 17 - July 16, 1919
This document contains correspondence between Wesley Aaron and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Aaron's desire to leave the Navy.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 24, 1919 - January 12, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding an attempt by Alaskan student Joseph S. Sheehan to purchase land in Baltimore.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 5 - December 5, 1919
The Arthur H. Clark Company informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they shipped a set of Volume 2 of "American Indian, as Slave-Holders, Secessionists, and During the Reconstruction" to the Carlisle Indian School and that they have not been paid because the school is closed.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt asks the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 19, 1919 - October 3, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request of John Curtis, of the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the disposition of students following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 23, 1919 - October 2, 1919
Inquiry from A. Reist Rutt regarding continuing the outing program following the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 13, 1919 - November 10, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by R. T. Hunter seeking information about Leroy Fitswal during his time at Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 2-11, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Edwin C. Allen about re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School after hearing rumors that the School was being reopened.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 19, 1919 - January 9, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by J. W. Asher to enter the Carlisle Indian School following its closing.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
- March 5, 1990
Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 31 - April 30, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Daisy Chase to her home in Federal Dam, Minnesota following a nursing program in Massachusetts and an outing with Mary E. Way of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Way requests funds to cover Chase's travel costs.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 2-24, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses for the course of study pursued by Marie Garlow while she was a student at Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 5, 1920 - September 27, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Oscar Nateroak for information about whether the Carlisle Arrow is still being published. Nateroak also provides information about Alaska and his own health.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 7-20, 1920
George D. Clark asks the Department of Indian Affairs if the Carlisle Indian School is still in operation, and if it's not, what kind of arrangements he could make with schools in the west. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Clark that Carlisle is closed and the Federal Government has no responsibility for educating…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 13-25, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from the Society of American Indians for a list of ex-students from Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 29, 1920 - January 6, 1921
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Eva Gould Metzger about whether and why the Carlisle Indian School was closed.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 18 - March 7, 1921
These materials include letters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to former Carlisle Indian School employees regarding the origins of some artifacts from the school. The artifacts, including a beaded buckskin coat, an old gun, a model of a three-masted ship, and a model of a battleship, could not be positively identified by the employees.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 13-20, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Henrietta Nelson, the secretary of Wellsburg High School's Athletic Association, and E. B. Merritt, the Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning the restoration of the Carlisle Indian School to the War Department and its transformation into a War Hospital treating soldiers after its…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 27 - May 5, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Mrs. Jerry Snyder, nee Daisy Doctor, to the Assistant Commissioner Charles H. Buck regarding her relation to Laura M. Doctor.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 1, 1921 - April 11, 1922
These materials include correspondence and a pamphlet regarding George W. Tibbetts' eligibility for coverage under Minnesota's Soldiers' Bonus Act. Minnesota's Attorney General ruled that, because Tibbetts had initially claimed exemption from drafted military service on the grounds that he was not a citizen of the United States, he was not…
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Books and Pamphlets, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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June 4-11, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Elias Bissell and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt inquiring as to whether the Carlisle Indian School will be reopened.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration