Request to Enroll Mexican Students

Date
December 31, 1916 - January 10, 1917

These materials include correspondence regarding the education of Mexican students at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner Sells' responds that Carlisle is not academically advanced but meant to train students in industrial arts. Further authority from Congress would have to made to have students from Mexico attend Carlisle. Also includes newspaper clippings from the Philadelphia Public Ledger (December 31, 1916).

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National Archives and Records Administration
Location
RG 75, CCF Entry 121, #27329-1917-Carlisle-820
Request to Enroll Mexican Students