An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1879, containing the Commissioner's report on Indian education. That report discusses the founding of the Carlisle Indian School under the command of Richard Henry Pratt, the school's location and campus, and…
Forest Grove Indian School
1879
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
July 18 - July 19, 1879
Lieutenant Melville C. Wilkinson requests to temporarily engage in "Indian educational work" in Oregon, and Acting Secretary of the Interior A. Bell forwards and endorses Wilkinson's request to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and the Secretary of War. In his telegraph to the Secretary of War, Bell states that Wilkinson's work will be similar…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 23, 1879 - August 1, 1879
Secretary of War George W. McCrary informs Assistant Secretary of the Interior A. Bell that he does not have authority to allow Lieutenant Melville C. Wilkinson to engage in Indian education as Richard Henry Pratt is already in that line of work. Instead, Wilkinson will be sent to a college in Oregon where certain Indian youth can be sent.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 20, 1880
In this letter the Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge was responding to a from Indian Agent A. B. Ludlam of the Pima and Maricopa Agency's request for the education of three Pima boys at the Hampton Institute instead of at Forest Grove Industrial Training School in Oregon. Trowbridge explains that the climate is not much colder…
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National Archives and Records Administration