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 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
March 23 - April 2, 1914
These materials include a list of students to be returned to their homes at the close of the 1914 school year as well as the authorization from the Assistant Commissioner.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Returned Students List for 1914353.11 KB
June 30, 1908
This document shows a list of pupils who went home on leave and the corresponding cost for their railroad fare.
In Inspector Linnen's supplemental report for the 1914 Congressional investigation at Carlisle, this document is labelled…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Sample Receipt for Railroad Fares (Supplemental Report Exhibit F)614.23 KB
March 23, 1914
Chief Inspector E. B. Linnen reports his findings from a follow-up visit to Carlisle for the 1914 investigation of the school.
In the first section Linnen narrates his findings of further financial mismanagement includes having the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Reports
View Document: Supplemental Report of Inspector E. B. Linnen, 191411.79 MB
March 24, 1914 - August 7, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint made by Maxime Favel regarding not be reimbursed for his expenses in coming to Carlisle and the use of his bank account to fund his return home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Complaint by Maxime Favel2.3 MB
December 21, 1906 - September 26, 1914
The service file compiled by the Office of Indian Affairs for Glenn S. Warner which covers only a brief period at the end Warner's tenure as Athletic Director at Carlisle. Most of the content concerns the negotiations between Warner,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Glenn Warner Personnel Folder Part 110.41 MB, Glenn Warner Personnel Folder Part 25.42 MB
March 24, 1914 - April 4, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Fred Big Top and Gus Lookaround to leave school early to work as tour guides in Glacier National Park in Montana.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Leave School Early by Fred Big Top and Gus Lookaround423.8 KB
March 25, 1914
The typed transcript of August Kensler's second time giving testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time he served as Carlisle's quartermaster.
In his testimony Kensler answers questions about the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: August Kensler Second Congressional Testimony2.53 MB
March 25, 1914
The typed transcript of S. J. Nori's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Nori was serving as the chief clerk at the school, having attended the school (from 1884-1894, not continuously) and then begun…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Siceni J. Nori Congressional Testimony9.2 MB
March 27, 1914
M. I. Zeigler answers questions from Inspector E. B. Linnen concerning the closure of the harness shop at Carlisle. Zeigler explains that he thinks Superintendent Friedman closed the shop because Zeigler did not award a contract to one of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Affidavit of M. I. Zeigler Re: Closure of the Harness Shop2.63 MB
March 27, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds from the Department of the Interior for the fourth quarter of 1914.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for the 1914 Fourth Quarter322.59 KB