These materials include correspondence and a newspaper clipping concerning the arrest of alleged former student Charles E. Brown on the charges of counterfeiting. Superintendent Moses Friedman states that a student by that name never attended the Carlisle Indian School, and that his story is full of inaccuracies.
Newspapers and Magazines
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![Letters And Articles Concerning Jim Thorpe's Olympic Victories Letters And Articles Concerning Jim Thorpe's Olympic Victories](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b002_f05_71916_00016.jpg?itok=hpYyniI_)
This material includes letters and articles about the success of Jim Thorpe at the Stockholm Olympics. This includes a newspaper article as well as a personal letter of congratulations from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
![News Article on Carlisle Kawbawgam News Article on Carlisle Kawbawgam](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b026_f25_127413_0002.jpg?itok=NJKf8-M4)
These materials include correspondence regarding a newspaper article about Carlisle Kawbawgam, who was noted as a graduate of the Carlisle Indian School and Yale School of Medicine. Kawbawgam was a vaudeville singer who was going to take up the study of opera in Europe under Frank King Clark.
The records at Carlisle had no record of…
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These materials include correspondence concerning an article about the arrest of alleged former student Sam Morris. The article, published by the Native American, the student newspaper of the Phoenix Indian School, notes that Morris was a Carlisle graduate and was arrested for forging a check. Carlisle's superintendent, Moses…
![Correspondence Regarding Changing Vocational Instruction at Carlisle Correspondence Regarding Changing Vocational Instruction at Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b020_f33_32753_0033.jpg?itok=oqFIdtdV)
Correspondence regarding the proposal to abolish the business/commercial department at the Carlisle Indian School while adding new courses focusing on home economics, mechanical arts, nursing, and agriculture. An additional focus is on the beginning of the Ford Outing Program. A copy of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 11, No. 22) that…
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The service file compiled by the Office of Indian Affairs for Glenn S. Warner which covers only a brief period at the end Warner's tenure as Athletic Director at Carlisle. Most of the content concerns the negotiations between Warner, Superintendent Lipps, and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs about how Warner would leave the school and what he…
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These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who reportedly visited the east end of the town for parties with local residents. Superintendent Lipps…
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response.
In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…
![Request for Enrollment of George H. Mayo Request for Enrollment of George H. Mayo](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b029_f09_132290_0005.jpg?itok=sCBiXirJ)
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by George H. Mayo to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Mayo and E. B. Meritt correspond on the matter of who is responsible for paying for Mayo's transportation to Carlisle.
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These materials contain a copy of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 12, No. 23) with a handwritten note on an article about former student James Walker as well as correspondence inquiring about Walker, including reports from Carlisle's superintendent and an outing agent.
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These materials include correspondence responding to a request for data comparing the costs of pupils who remain at the school versus those who are outing. Superintendent Lipps includes a copy of the July 1916 Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 13, No. 1) that includes a statistical Outing Report for the fiscal year ending June 1916.
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These materials include correspondence regarding the education of Mexican students at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner Sells' responds that Carlisle is not academically advanced but meant to train students in industrial arts. Further authority from Congress would have to made to have students from Mexico attend Carlisle. Also includes…
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This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either requesting information about the school and its graduates, or inquiring to see if the school is still…