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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December 31, 1914- January 15, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning a request made by Stephen Foote to access his student funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by Stephen Foote
1915
This compiled list of graduates of the Carlisle Indian School from 1889 to 1915 includes the names, Nations, and addresses of Carlisle's graduates from those class years. The compilation year of this document is believed to be circa 1915 based on…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Graduation
Format: Reports
View Document: List of Graduates, 1889-1915
January 4-13, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company would like to purchase 7/1000 of an acre of Farm No. 1 to provide a bit more room to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
January 5-18, 1915
Reginald Oshkosh appeals to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to prevent the discharge for cause of his son, Roland Oshkosh, from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Appeal to Allow Roland Oshkosh to Remain at Carlisle
January 9 - 13, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the formation of a Boy Scout troop at Carlisle. This is considered the first Native American scouting troop.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Boy Scout Troop Formation at Carlisle
January 11 - March 10, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for incidental expenses in association with the administration of the school. Lipps later requests approval for spending $8.40 for eggs.
Second Assistant…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Eggs
January 12, 1915 - February 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment status of Alexander P. Powell.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment Status of Alexander Powell
January 12, 1915
These materials include a correspondence regarding the whereabouts of Susie Wallan and Margaret Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Whereabouts of Susie Wallan and Margaret Buffalo
January 15, 1915
Emily Peake Robitaille, Secretary of the Alumni Association of the Carlisle Indian School, writes to former students regarding the desire of the Alumni Association to start an Alumni Publication following a conference of Alumni Secretaries.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
January 18, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt provides information regarding a bill dispute with the Gettysburg and Harrisburg Railroad Company to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps. Meritt advises Lipps to accept…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Bill Dispute with Railroad Company
January 22, 1915 - February 10, 1915
The Chicago and North Western Railway Company writes to the Indian Office requesting that a $30 train ticket be paid for. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps, who told CNWRC to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: False Claim for $30.06 Train Ticket
January 22 - October 1, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the enrollment of Ben Powell and Charles Williams at Haskell Institute. Both had previously been enrolled at Carlisle. Also included are documents concerning the requirements placed upon student…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
February 1 - April 29, 1915
Correspondence and investigative material related to a charge that Oscar H. Lipps made a sale of Indian allotments in the Nez Perce reservation for personal gain. The investigation concluded that Lipps was innocent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
February 1, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the departure of Louis Twin from Carlisle and the funds owed for his transportation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Departure of Louis Twin
February 5-16, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning Orvilla Azure's request to know the status of his allotment.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Land Allotment by Orvilla Azure
February 11 - August 12, 1915
These materials include correspondence and a report regarding the suitability of turning the Carlisle Indian School into a military school. At the request of John H. Stephens, Chairman of the House Committee on Indian Affairs, the Secretaries of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
February 12 - March 6, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the cancellation of checks for former students who had deserted the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Cancelled Checks for Deserted Students
February 12, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Irwin Sherman from Carlisle, and payment of his transportation to Sioux City, Iowa.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Being Expelled
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of Irwin Sherman
February 17 - July 26, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the suggestion of Superintendent Lipps to start a reformatory school for the Indian Service. Lipps states that students should not be sent to Carlisle when they have access to similar education…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Need for Indian Service Reformatory School
February 17 - March 15, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 for incidental expenses in association with the administration of the school. He attaches an explanation of funds expended on an authorization from February 17.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
February 19, 1915
Oscar H. Lipps responds to a request about Minnie Atkins' enrollment period. An affidavit answering that request is forwarded.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment Period Verification of Minnie Atkins
February 20 - June 29, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the application of Elizabeth Fish to attend the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence Regarding Enrollment of Elizabeth Fish
February 20 - April 14, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the circumstances surrounding the return home of Newton Robinson to the Omaha Reservation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of Newton Robinson
February 24, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the current addresses of Susie Wallace and Margaret Buffalo.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Present Addresses of Susie Wallace and Margaret Buffalo
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 Bran