Richard Henry Pratt inquires if Captain J. E. Quentin is being appointed as Superintendent of the Grand Junction school. Pratt also notes that the Chilocco appointment will be one of the best.
Chilocco Indian School
October 29, 1889
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 1891
Richard Henry Pratt provides a report responding to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs on the needs of the Carlisle Indian School. Included are discussions on the need for more land, additional educational needs, and industrial training including the limitations of the industrial instruction received at Carlisle.
Pratt also…
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Reports
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Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Land Transactions, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Indian School System, Factors Affecting Student Recruitment, Discipline - Punishment, Printing Department, Student Living Conditions, School Library, Student Transfers, World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Students Running Away, School Employees - Housing, School Utilities, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Books Used at School, School Farms - Productivity, Medical Examinations of Potential Students, Opposition to Carlisle from Agency Clergy, Student Illness, Music Instruction, Supplies – Requests and Fulfillment, Recordkeeping at the School, Discipline - Student Court Process
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 7-November 28, 1894
Richard Henry Pratt forwards nine certificates of attendance at summer school for seven teachers: O. H. Bakeless, Emma A. Cutter, Fanny G. Paull, Jennie P. Cochran, Kate S. Bowersox, Katherine J. Wiest, and Anna C. Hamilton. An explanatory cover letter is included.
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Letters/Correspondence, Memorabilia and Ephemera
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 14, 1897 - June 17, 1897
Rosa Bourassa requests a transfer to the Chilocco School due to her health. Richard Henry Pratt endorses the request and provides a recommendation.
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 11, 1897 - October 13, 1897
Ben F. Taylor, Superintendent of the Chilocco Indian School, forwards a letter of recommendation from Richard Henry Pratt regarding Charles E. Dagenett's application to be a clerk in the Indian Service.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 23, 1902 - December 27, 1902
Richard Henry Pratt forwards his reply to G. L. Scott, Acting Indian Agent at the Leech Lake Agency, regarding Scott's request that he enroll a student who has previously runaway from two prior schools.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 4-19, 1906
Harold A. Loring, Supervisor of Native Music, requests the Commissioner of Indian Affairs responds to two complaints made by Carlisle Indian School bandleader C. M. Stauffer related to Stauffer not receiving credit in various publications.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 29, 1907 - August 15, 1907
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he is not in favor of the proposed transfer of Emma C. Lovewell due to the statement of Superintendent Dewitt S. Harris of the Cherokee Training School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 3 - April 22, 1908
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee informs the Carlisle Indian School Superintendent that he should furnish the relief of Boys' Field Agent Fred W. Canfield before James E. Henderson takes his position.
Larrabee also informs the superintendent that he has to pay for Assistant Superintendent John R. Wise's salary…
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June 8-20, 1908
Harvey K. Meyer, assistant clerk at Haskell Institute, requests to transfer to Carlisle and asks for a recommendation from Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman, who recently transferred from Haskell himself. Haskell Superintendent Peairs and Friedman endorse Meyer's request. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 24 - October 19, 1910
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Raymond Kennedy to be released from the Carlisle Indian School in order to continue with his machinist trade in one of Carlisle's outing districts. Kennedy's request was denied, but he was given the ability to access his money held at Carlisle.
Also included in the file is…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 10-19, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the transfer of Filerio Tafoya from Carlisle to the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School to take a course in electrical engineering.
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April 20, 1917
Edgar A. Allen, Superintendent of the United States Indian School at Chilocco, Oklahoma, writes to Richard Henry Pratt acknowledging receipt of his letter to the Journal and inviting Pratt to visit Chilocco.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
September 11- 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of funds from students at Carlisle who were transferred to the Chilocco Indian School upon the closure of Carlisle in 1918.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
- March 5, 1990
Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 27 - May 4, 1926
T. H. Schimfessel asks the "Athletic Coach" at the Carlisle Indian School if he knew of any good pitchers because he is organizing an all-Indian baseball team to tour the east coast. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Schimfessel that the school closed in 1918 and refers him to the Assistant Superintendent in Charge…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration