Pratt Writes to Jackson About Recruiting Navajo Students, 1880

Richard Henry Pratt continues correspondence with Sheldon Jackson about obtaining permission to recruit Navajo, Pueblo, and Moqui students. He regrets that they are only permitted 15 Navaho students out of a total of 50 from these peoples. Pratt notes that the detail of Lt. Brown for recruiting is encountering difficulties and that he may have to travel himself to escort these students. 

This material is from the Richard Henry Pratt papers, donated by his family to Yale University in 1959 and 1976. Selected content from the Pratt collection related to the Carlisle Indian School is being added to this site. Yale's complete collection guide is available here: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pratt