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
May 13, 1911 - June 13, 1911
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 22-31, 1912
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.
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines, Photographs
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November 23 - December 14, 1912
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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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 23, 1913
William P. Campbell worked as a teacher and disciplinarian at Carlisle from 1882 until approximately 1894. This is a page from his personnel folder for work for the Department of Interior.
The page that is posted here shows a newspaper clipping in which Campbell relates a story of Hollow Horn Bear's speech while visiting Carlisle in…
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October 4-15, 1913
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…
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 11, 1914 - March 5, 1915
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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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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December 21, 1906 - September 26, 1914
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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May 3-12, 1915
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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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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May 12, 1915
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…
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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February 18-23, 1916
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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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 2, 1916
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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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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December 31, 1916 - January 10, 1917
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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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 29, 1918 - April 19, 1966
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…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration