Documents

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 31, 1915 - April 28, 1915

Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh request to use their tribal funds to visit home during vacations. The responses and views of the Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School are…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

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April 2, 1915 - January 6, 1942

These materials include documents, correspondence, and legal documents related to a number of bequests and inheritances made to the Carlisle Indian School. The correspondence largely deals with questions of whether and how such bequests should be…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

April 5, 1915 - September 16, 1915

Report on the Vocational Courses in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts and Home Economics for the Carlisle Indian School by H. L. Kent, Special Supervisor and correspondence surrounding the report. Kent's report focuses on making Carlisle a secondary…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

April 6-10, 1915

Hattie Martin requests clarification about enrollment guidelines for government education and whether Martin qualifies to attend Carlisle.

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April 7, 1915 - May 5, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from April 7 were spent.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

April 10 - 12, 1915

These materials include correspondence from Cato Sells regarding a request from Nancy Lane that Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh to use their pro rata shares of the tribal trust fund to visit their home during the school vacation.

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April 17 - October 9, 1915

Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding creating a survey for Indians that have attended boarding schools. By creating a survey, Lipps hopes to discover whether…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

April 22, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the need for superintendents of nonreservation schools to communicate when students attempt to re-enroll in a different school, using two former Carlisle students as examples.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

April 26, 1915

These materials include correspondence to the father of William Ghost Dog, notifying him that William saved the two-year-old son of the school printer from drowning.

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April 26, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the desertion of Ben Bearchild from Carlisle, and funds to pay for a baseball uniform.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Runaway of Ben Bearchild147.82 KB

April 28, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Hermis Merrivall to his home in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Return Home of Hermis Merrivall251.52 KB

April 29, 1915 - May 12, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the release of Hannah Kennedy from the Sleighton Farm reformatory school for girls into the care of Mary T. Scheurman.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Care of Hannah Kennedy1.08 MB

April 29, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding Supervisor Oscar Lipps' decision to send Edward Brien back to his home in North Dakota.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Return Home of Edward Brien246.34 KB

May 1, 1915

These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: Reports

May 3-12, 1915

These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

May 4-20, 1915

Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps that they have several strategic maps of central Europe and asks if they would be useful at the school. Lipps replies that they would be "very glad to…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

May 10-11, 1915

Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt requests that the Carlisle Indian School print 3,000 bulletins from Boise, Idaho. The bulletin is called "Official News from the State Board of Health." Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

May 12, 1915

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response. 

In his reply Lipps disputes some of the…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

May 12-14, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Lipps…

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May 14 - 29, 1915

These materials include a request by LeRoy Spencer to take a course in chemical engineering at Carlisle. As Carlisle did not offer work in chemistry and chemical engineering, he was sent the Arrow with a course catalog.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Request for Enrollment by LeRoy Spencer450.86 KB

May 18, 1915

Naomi Greensky's program for the commencement concert on May 18, 1915 by the Carlisle Indian School band.

Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections

View Document: Commencement Concert program, 1915704.71 KB

May 20-29, 1915

These materials include a report and correspondence regarding H. B. Peairs' investigation of discipline at the Carlisle Indian School in May, 1915. The report notes numerous improvements that were made and should be pursued. Superintendent Oscar…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

May 20, 1915

These materials include a report by H. B. Peairs on the discipline among boys at the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses changes enacted by Oscar Hiram Lipps, who was promoted from Supervisor in Charge to Superintendent during this…

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

Format: Reports

May 21, 1915 - July 3, 1915

These materials contain correspondence regarding the disciplining of Harvey Concho for altering checks.

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration

View Document: Discipline of Harvey Concho848.6 KB

May 24, 1915 - July 12, 1915

Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests to expend $25 under authority No. 66968. Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke approves Lipps' request. 

Repository: National Archives and Records Administration