Pratt Encourages Navajo Students Be Sent to Carlisle, 1880

Letter from Pratt to Rev. A. H. Donaldson at Fort Defiance, Arizona, stating that he welcomes Navajo students at the school. He describes the religious affiliations of the staff and the role of religion at the school. 

This material is from the Richard Henry Pratt papers, donated by his family to Yale University in 1959 and 1976. Selected content from the Pratt collection related to the Carlisle Indian School is being added to this site. Yale's complete collection guide is available here: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.pratt