The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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March 2, 1914
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Oscar Derrisaw.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Oscar Derrisaw234.93 KB
March 4, 1914
Superintendent-in-Charge Oscar Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he has delivered the charges preferred against Friedman and Stauffer to each person. He forwards the duplicate copies that have been signed by Friedman and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Delivery of Charges Against Superintendent Friedman and Music Director Stauffer450.99 KB
March 4-17, 1914
Oscar H. Lipps requests approval to follow through on his predecessors plan to print 3,500 copies of the Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School for the year ending June 30, 1913. E. B. Meritt subsequently informs Lipps that there is no need…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Annual Reports, Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Lipps Seeks Office Approval to Print 1913 Annual Report242.65 KB
March 7 - 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding Minnie Onhand's trip to Washington D. C. to visit Chief Lookout.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Minnie Onhand Trip to Washington D.C.449.67 KB
March 9-23, 1914
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1914" appropriation and $100 from the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor, Carlisle School" appropriation to pay for incidental expenses. Second…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Exhaustion of Fiscal Year 1914 Funds1.1 MB
March 11, 1914 - March 5, 1915
Correspondence regarding the proposal to abolish the business/commercial department at the Carlisle Indian School while adding new courses focusing on home economics, mechanical arts, nursing, and agriculture. An additional focus is on the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Changing Vocational Instruction at Carlisle13.99 MB
March 11, 1914
A telegram from Carlisle student Gus Welch (also known as Gustavus Welch) to Inspector Edward B. Linnen. Welch expresses his concern that Claude Stauffer, Anna Ridenour, and an attorney named Ligitt had approached the student Julia Hardin to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Telegram Expressing Concern About Staff Activities497.75 KB
March 11, 1914
The disciplinarian Edward E. McKean telegrams Inspector Edward B. Linnen expressing his worry about a paper he had hurriedly signed related to Superintendent Friedman. This telegram was sent in the midst of Linnen's investigation into the school…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Telegram Expressing Worry about Signing a Paper408.77 KB
March 12, 1914 - April 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence concerning a request for tuition for two pupils from the Creek Nation to be refunded.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Refund of Tuition for Two Creek Students225.21 KB
March 13-26, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Oscar H. Lipps on behalf of Peter Jordan as to Jordan's eligibility to receive a scholarship funded through the tribal funds of the Chippewa Nation in Minnesota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Chippewa Scholarship Inquiry for Peter Jordan189.46 KB
March 13, 1914
Cato Sells, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, requests from Oscar H. Lipps, that the Carlisle Indian School print 1000 copies of the Press of the Annual Report for the fiscal year 1913. Sells asks that Lipps proof the work in order to expedite the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Carlisle to Print Press of the Annual Report for 1913162.72 KB
March 14, 1914 - July 17, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding requests from numerous employees for salary increases and on-campus housing provisions. During the 1914 Congressional Investigation, investigator Edward Linnen noted the need for salary increases…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Employee Requests for Raises and Housing Allowances, 1914959.77 KB
March 14, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding Hiram Chase's trip to the Indian Office in Washington D. C. to visit his father.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Hiram Chase Trip to Washington D. C.203.17 KB
March 18, 1914
John Whitwell writes a letter to Inspector Edward Linnen about events in the aftermath of the investigation Linnen undertook in winter of 1914. This includes meetings between a student and the matron Anna Ridenour and music director Claude…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Aftermath of 1914 Congressional Investigation (Supplemental Report Exhibit H)1.99 MB
March 18, 1914
Julia Hardin answers questions from Inspector Linnen about the aftermath of her testimony before Congress.
In Inspector Linnen's supplemental report for the 1914 Congressional investigation at Carlisle, this document is labelled Exhibit G.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Second Affidavit of Julia Hardin (Supplemental Report Exhibit G)7.89 MB
March 19 - April 14, 1914
This document contains correspondence concerning a request by former student Antoine Barron to receive money from his student account.
Note: In this file the student is referred to as Antoine Barron and Antoine Barrar.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by Antoine Barron389.86 KB
March 20, 1914
In the first affidavit, Siceni Nori answers questions posed by Inspector Edward Linnen about the financial mismanagement of Superintendent Friedman’s administration and Nori’s role in that mismanagement. At the time Nori was Chief Clerk at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Affidavits of Siceni Nori (Supplemental Report Exhibit B)20.73 MB
March 20, 1914 - May 15, 1914
These materials concern the return home and transportation costs of Earl Armstrong.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
View Document: Return Home and Transportation Costs of Earl Armstrong1.3 MB
March 21, 1914
In this affidavit Kensler (Quartermaster at Carlisle) answers questions about the sale of government property and the management of government funds by Superintendent Friedman.
In Inspector Linnen's supplemental report for the 1914…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Affidavit of August Kensler (Supplemental Report Exhibit C)3.15 MB
March 21, 1914
In this affidavit Beatrice Herman (a clerk at Carlisle at the time) answers questions about Siceni Nori’s role in the financial mismanagement of Superintendent Friedman’s administration.
In Inspector Linnen's supplemental report for the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Affidavit of Beatrice Herman (Supplemental Report Exhibit J)3.09 MB
March 21, 1914
Addressed to Commissioner Sells and signed by 55 student athletes, this petition asks that school athletic director Glenn Warner be removed for his position due to his poor moral character and conduct. The petition includes nine different…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Petition to Remove Glenn Warner as Athletic Director1.93 MB
March 21, 1914
In this affidavit Gus Welch (a student at the time) gives a statement about a letter allegedly written by Jim Thorpe. Welch says that the letter (in which Thorpe said that Warner and Friedman knew nothing of Thorpe’s professional playing) was…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Second Affidavit of Gus Welch (Supplement Report Exhibit I)1.75 MB
March 23, 1914 - February 20, 1915
These materials include correspondence and financial documents related to the expenditure of funds on student labor and materials to make repairs and improve the grounds at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Expenditures for Student Labor and Repairs1.5 MB
March 23, 1914
This document is a list of student names and corresponding addresses. A small number of students have multiple addresses, possibly accounting for them moving elsewhere.
While this is labelled Exhibit A and is part of the 1914 Congressional…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Miscellaneous
View Document: List of Student Addresses (Supplemental Report Exhibit A)638.46 KB
March 23, 1914
This document is a list of numbers which are said to be all payments made by the Carlisle administration to have construction work done by outside contractors in the year of 1913 and the month of January of 1914. There is no further context for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Payments to Outside Construction Workers1.42 MB