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 23 - July 14, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by F. L. Kern to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Kern required an exemption from the Office of Indian Affairs to be admitted due to his age. The Office did not grant the exemption…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by F. L. Kern848.97 KB
March 24 - April 25, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James (Jimmie) Blue Bird to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Blue Bird sought an exemption from the maximum age requirement in order to enroll. The request was granted from the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by James Blue Bird447.76 KB
March 24-28, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Cary W. Hartman to enroll at Carlisle a Native student from Canada. The request was denied by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs due to the fact that the student was not a ward of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Canadian Citizen483.38 KB
March 27 - 31, 1910
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Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Graduation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1910 Commencement Program6.62 MB
March 27, 1910 - March 31, 1910
Invitation to the 1910 commencement ceremonies of the Carlisle Indian School from March 27th to March 31st.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Topics: Graduation
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: Invitation to the 1910 Commencement Exercises111.99 KB
March 27 - April 25, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Major Frederick S. Foltz to enroll Engracio Baculy, a minor from the Philippines in his care, at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was granted on the condition that Foltz cover…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Engracio Baculy1.14 MB
March 28, 1910 - March 30, 1910
The program for "The Captain of Plymouth," performed as part of the Commencement Exercises of 1910. The program lists the various acts of the performance as well as the student actors.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: Program for "The Captain of Plymouth," 19101.43 MB
March 31, 1910
Schedule for the 1910 graduation exercises of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
View Document: 1910 Commencement Schedule141.32 KB
April 2, 1910
Secretary R. A. Ballinger informs Senator N. B. Scott that, if the Shenandoah Tribe would like to have the Carlisle Indian School Band perform on July 4 for them, he should write to the school's superintendent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from Shenandoah Tribe to host the Carlisle Indian School Band on July 483.81 KB
April 5 - June 22, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Nettie LaVatta to have her four children-Emma, Elizabeth, George, and Benton-remain at the Carlisle Indian School for the full term of their enrollments. LaVatta later requested…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Re-Enrollment of Four LaVatta Children1.13 MB
April 7 - 18, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Oakley Pierce to have his son Mitchell Pierce returned to his home from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Mitchell Pierce319.52 KB
April 8-16, 1910
Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke requests Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to create a report on student outings from July 1, 1909 to April 1, 1910. A few days later Hauke asks for a statement outlining the overall plan for the outing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
View Document: Outing System Rulebook and Forms 1.37 MB
April 8, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $160 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" account to purchase and install a freight elevator for the girls' dormitory.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Building Repairs and Expansions
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request to Install a Freight Elevator in the Girls' Dormitory115.19 KB
April 14 - May 10, 1910
These materials include a request from Joseph Loudbear to return home following his graduation. Loudbear desired to assist his uncle on working Loudbear's property. Loudbear later rescinded his request in order to finish his term of enrollment on…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home by Joseph Loudbear678.79 KB
April 14 - May 9, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to release Max Mixsooke from his term of enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was granted.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Max Mixsooke339.93 KB
April 25, 1910 - May 19, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding student Judson Bertrand's work at the office of Carlisle dentist Dr. C. E. Wogan. There was some dispute about Bertrand's role as well as where he could pursue training as a dentist.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute Regarding Judson Bertrand and Outing System1.63 MB
April 26 - May 5, 1910
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to sell 250 bushels of rye. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine grants Friedman permission to do so.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Selling Produce
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Sell 250 Bushels of Rye174.26 KB
April 28 - May 16, 1910
H. C. Edlridge compliments Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine by saying that he was greatly impressed by the Carlisle Indian School's students' performance in his opera "The Captain of Plymouth," which was performed at Commencement.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Regarding the Students' Performance in the Opera "The Captain of Plymouth"187.97 KB
April 28 - July 14, 1910
These material include correspondence regarding a request by Mitchell Connors to have his daughter Nancy Connors returned home for the summer break from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Nancy Connors for Summer Break996 KB
May 6 - 31, 1910
These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Outing Placement Statement for 1910207.88 KB
May 9, 1910 - May 13, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman provides receipts from the Assistant Treasurer for the account "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" totaling $161, 719.97 of the total $164,000 appropriation.
Chief of the Finance…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues with the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1910" Account370.12 KB
May 12, 1910 - August 10, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from James N. Coon to return his niece Ida Coon Sands to her home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Ida Coon Sands540.91 KB
May 19, 1910
Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke encloses a letter to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman. The letter, from Hattie E. Hudson, requested to secure female students for housework in New Jersey. Hauke requests that Friedman send Hudson…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Patrons
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from New Jersey to Procure Female Students for Housework101.39 KB
May 24 - June 18, 1910
Walter S. Davis asks Congressman John H. Rothermel to influence the Carlisle Indian School for him because he would like to have "two of the trained servants" from the school, but the school's policy is to not send students to cities the size of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Policy Against Female Students Working as Servants while on Outing401.67 KB
May 26, 1910
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns triplicate copy of Arrivals and Departures of Pupils for the third quarter of 1910.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Recordkeeping at the School
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Arrivals and Departures of Pupils Report for 1910 Third Quarter110.01 KB