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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February 24, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the current addresses of Susie Wallace and Margaret Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Present Addresses of Susie Wallace and Margaret Buffalo94.87 KB
February 25, 1915 - March 11, 1915
F. E. Shallenberger, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Auditor, asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs if he should pay a $1 demurrage charge to Western Lines on a shipment of bran from Portland Flour Mills to the Carlisle Indian School.
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Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Demurrage Charge on Shipment of Bran413.83 KB
February 25, 1915
Commissioner Cato Sells replies to a letter from Dr. F. A. McKenzie, providing information on inspectorships, appointments, and the civil service (information not attached). Sells also praises Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar Lipps.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Information on Inspectorships117.04 KB
March 1-3, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of George Clifford and the expenses resulting from the transportation cost to send him home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of George Clifford394.27 KB
March 3-15, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Luis C. Varela to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School. Varela was instructed that he could enroll as a non-Indian pupil upon payment of the appropriate tuition.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by Luis C. Varela353.42 KB
March 3-23, 1915
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells informs Wilson L. Gill, of the American Patriotic League, that he will appoint him Supervisor of Indian Schools at the Rapid City Indian School to test Gill's new plan for "civic and moral training."…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Indian School System
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Wilson L. Gill's Opportunity to Demonstrate his Method of Civil and Moral Instruction1.27 MB
March 8, 1915 - May 11, 1915
These materials include numerous suggestions from Oscar Hiram Lipps and Dennison Wheelock regarding changes that should be made to policy and staff at the Carlisle Indian School. Lipps' suggestions focus on disciplinary measures, the end of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommended Changes to School Policies and Staff4.35 MB
March 9, 1915
Cato Sells requests Oscar Lipps send him a statement regarding the improvements he has made or is planning to make at the Carlisle Indian School since he took the Superintendent position.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cato Sells Requests Information on Improvements made by Lipps158.59 KB
March 10-20, 1915
Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests funds to pay for the return of students who were set to graduate or whose terms were about to expire. Names, home address, and estimated transportation costs are listed.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Students for March 1915626.03 KB
March 12, 1915 - March 23, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Printing Department Clerk John B. McGillis writes on behalf of Chippewa students from the White Earth Reservation to ask if they will soon be receiving annuity payments.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discussion of Annuity Payments to the Chippewa Students261.02 KB
March 17 - November 3, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the student account of Peter Wakejoo. This account contains requests for payment of a lost check, as well as general money due to the student.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Inquiry into Account of Peter Wakejoo3.77 MB
March 19, 1915 - May 12, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests to sell two old cows because they no longer give milk. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke grants Lipps permission.
Lipps later states that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sale of Three Cows that no longer Provide Milk521.2 KB
March 24, 1915 - April 3, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the student funds of James Holyeagle. The student was requesting a pro rata share of his tribal trust funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by James Holyeagle239.7 KB
March 26, 1915
These materials include a memorandum about reforms made to Carlisle Indian School policies by Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps in response to a 1914 Congressional investigation. The outlined reforms included curtailing the outing program, changing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Reports
View Document: Memorandum Regarding School Policy Reforms962.81 KB
March 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding Carlisle's policy regarding the treatment and discharge of students who contract a venereal disease while enrolled at the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Policy Regarding Venereal Diseases360.76 KB
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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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request by Oshkosh Children to Use Tribal Funds to Visit Home1.89 MB
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
View Document: Bequests to the Carlisle Indian School16.84 MB
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
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report on Revised Vocational Training at the Carlisle Indian School18.89 MB
April 6-10, 1915
Hattie Martin requests clarification about enrollment guidelines for government education and whether Martin qualifies to attend Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Eligibility Clarification by Hattie Martin278.2 KB
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
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities211.63 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Use of Pro Rata Tribal Funds to Visit Home649.67 KB
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
Topics: Indian School System
Format: Letters/Correspondence
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
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Policy Regarding Enrollment of Former Pupils at Other Schools486.44 KB
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.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Praise for William Ghost Dog After Rescuing Drowning Toddler105.63 KB
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
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Runaway of Ben Bearchild147.82 KB