Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Georgie H. Kelly and Edith W Kinkead have resigned. He recommends that, in the future, employees who will stay at the school on a more permanent basis be hired.
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February 19, 1913
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February 24-27, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alfonso Rodart to enter a government-run school such as Carlisle. C. F. Hauke rejected the request, as Rodart did not specify a trade and he already had the equivalent of Carlisle's academic education
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March 4-8, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph K. Griffis to have his daughter enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.
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March 6, 1913 - March 18, 1913
J. Webster Henderson informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the Carlisle Borough is planning to build a sewage tunnel that will go underneath the school grounds and the Henderson Farm. Friedman then forwards Henderson's letter to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs and asks for the petition to be granted.
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March 13-27, 1913
Nell C. Splitstone, children's editor of The People's Home Journal, asks the Department of the Interior for a complete record of former Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's time at the Carlisle Indian School.
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott informs Splitstone of Pratt's address and sends them the Report…
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March 18, 1913
Assistant Secretary of the Interior Lewis C. Laylin informs J. Webster Henderson that he grants permission for the Carlisle Borough to begin the construction of a sewer underneath the school's grounds and the Henderson Farm.
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March 18-31, 1913
Acting Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. M. Farrington informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they tested the cattle herd at the Carlisle Indian School for tuberculosis in January, 1913. Of 46 total cows, 34 were healthy. The remaining 12 were slaughtered in Harrisburg and postmortem examination confirmed the test results that…
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March 24 - April 3, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by K. C. Steele, an American citizen, to enroll an acquaintance from the Six Nation Reserve in Brantford, Canada at the Carlisle Indian School to study dentistry. Steele's request is denied, as no Indian School in the United States teaches dentistry and because his acquaintance would…
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March 24, 1913 - November 23, 1916
Edward McKean served briefly as disciplinarian at Carlisle from April 16, 1913 until June 17, 1914. This post includes selections from his employee paperwork collected by the Bureau of Indian Affairs while he worked in the Indian Service.
These selections include paperwork about McKean's transfer to and from Carlisle and his job…
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April 1-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Antoine Petite.
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April 2, 1913 - April 28, 1913
George D. Branston, Treasurer of Manning, Maxwell & Moore Inc., informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that the schools has not paid two invoices from the previous summer. The school owes $461 for a Barnes upright drilling machine and $116 for a grinder.
Friedman informs Branston that he forwarded the two…
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April 6-11, 1913
These materials include a request by Robert Bruce to have the government pay his transportation back home. Bruce wished to leave Carlisle early to help his father plant the wheat crop at their home in Montana.
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April 7, 1913
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Alice Sowtea.
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April 8-21, 1913
These materials include correspondence concerning a request to approve a check of Elizabeth La Vatta's.
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April 9 - May 24, 1913
Supervisor of Indian Funds Benton informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott that $35,000 of Carlisle Indian School students' money is held in the Farmers Trust Company in Carlisle, and the school handles all business and all record-keeping of this money. Benton recommends that the students should have to keep an account book and…
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April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Frank Peshlakie.
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April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Josephine Warren.
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April 12, 1913 - April 22, 1913
Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. informs the Department of the Interior that they have an unpaid invoice of $73.80 for blue-check material.
Chief of the Finance Division of the Department of the Interior Frank Govern encloses the letter to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman and requests that he communicates directly with the…
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April 18, 1913 - April 18, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Milford Henderson at the Carlisle Indian School. Henderson was initially denied admittance to the School due to his proximity to attend a local public school. However, upon learning that his mother was moving to Wisconsin and due to the interceding of the Governor of Utah and…
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April 29, 1913 - May 6, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Friedman informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that the claim from Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. for an unpaid invoice for blue-check material is void. Friedman states that the material was not the same as the sample and was eventually returned.
Chief of the Finance Division of Indian Affairs…
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April 30, 1913
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott tells Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to make a full report on all of the students who are leaving the school at the end of the academic year.
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May 6-14, 1913
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman advises against abolishing the Teachers' Club during July and August because he does not believe it is a good idea for employees to cook their own meals in their room. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbot agrees with Friedman.
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May 7, 1913
These materials include a report on Fred Lookout and Julia Pryor, under the Osage Superintendency, who were both Carlisle Indian School alumni.
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May 8-13, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Montreville Yuda to F. H. Abbott, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to leave the Carlisle Indian School while remaining in the borough of Carlisle to work. School officials were opposed to this course of action, citing past difficulties with former students interfering with…
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May 9, 1913 - July 30, 1979
This folder has two sets of material. The first half of the folder includes a few papers related to research inquiries into Carlos Montezuma's Indian Service employment records. The second half includes an exchange of letters between William Lightfoot Visscher and Secretary of the Interior Franklin Lane about letters that Montezuma had sent to…
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