The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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June 19, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to travel to St. Augustine with a Carlisle Indian School student from Chiricahua to provide a presentation to the Apache prisoners of war about the intentions of the Government in seeking to educate their…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests to Travel to St. Augustine to Recruit Students for Carlisle639.29 KB
June 19, 1886 - June 28, 1886
Correspondence discussing the appropriation of $37,500 for improvements to the Carlisle Indian School including the acquisition of the neighboring Parker farm, a new large boys’ dormitory, a school barn, and some other improvements. A…
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View Document: Secretary of the Interior Letter Regarding Improvements to the Parker Farm828.77 KB
June 20, 1886
First Lieutenant Stephen C. Mills, the officer in charge of the Chiricahua Indian Prisoners at Fort Marion, Florida recommends sending Bonito, a student at the Carlisle Indian School and a member of the Apache Nation, to Fort Marion to discuss…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation to Send Bonito to Fort Marion for Recruitment704.78 KB
June 21, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for July 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Irregular Employees Required for July 1886292.75 KB
June 22, 1886
Clinton B. Fisk, Chairman of the Board of Indian Commissioners, provides his inspection of the Carlisle Indian School to John D. C. Atkins. In particular, Fisk suggests purchasing the Parker farm, building a large barn, and building a large new…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendations for Improvements to the Carlisle Indian School837.68 KB
June 24, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with additional information in regard to required labor needed for July 1886. Pratt inadvertently omitted the need for a music instructor from the list sent previously on…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Additional Irregular Employee Required for July 1886319.62 KB
June 28, 1886 - July 17, 1886
Mauricio Martin requests the return of his son Lorenzo Martinez (here referred to as Lorenzo Martin) for the vacation due to his mother's ill health. Martin states that she does not believe the letters and photographs Lorenzo sends home.
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Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Lorenzo Martinez to Return Home During Vacation1.6 MB
June 30, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt requests transportation to send Joseph Hamilton, a member of the Omaha Nation, from Carlisle to Bancroft, Nebraska.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds for Joseph Hamilton to Travel to Bancroft, Nebraska314.67 KB
July 3, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt forwards transportation requests covering students and employees over the Union Pacific and the Sioux City & Pacific railroads which were disallowed to the Secretary of the Interior.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Disallowed Travel Requests to Interior Secretary510.21 KB
July 6, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt submits a voucher to the Office of Indian Affairs for expenses related to arresting and returning the two students who had run away from the Carlisle Indian School and were apprehended at Gallitzin, Pennsylvania.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Submission of Voucher Covering Expenses in Returning Two Run Away Students436.75 KB
July 8, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt submits eight photographs to the Office of Indian Affairs. Pratt mentions that four photos were of the three spring and four of the platform spring.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Submits Photographs of Wagons301.71 KB
July 10, 1886
Estimate of funds for the third quarter of 1886 amounting to $17,155.40 for support of the school and for transportation of Indian supplies. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $6,652.50 for regular employee pay. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Third Quarter 18861.42 MB
July 14, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to keep Miss Hyde on the regular employee roll to continue in her role while alterations are made to the girls quarters. In addition, Pratt requests authority to pay for an irregular employee to visit outing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Authority to Pay Temporary Help Over the 1886 Summer445.4 KB
July 15, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to renew the lease on the Hocker Farm. Pratt provides the justification for the lease by claiming that the lease goes to support the charity fund which in turn is used to rent additional farmland including…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Renew Hocker Farm Lease for Fiscal Year 1887680.83 KB
July 17, 1886
Charles E. Montieth, Farmer in Charge of the Nez Perce Agency, recommends that two or three Nez Perce students currently at the Carlisle Indian School whose terms of enrollment are about to expire travel with Montieth's replacement from the East…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Suggestion for Returning Nez Perce Students to Their Homes471.28 KB
July 20, 1886
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for August 1886. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Irregular Employees Required for August 1886394.53 KB
July 26, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for the transportation of Harriet Mary, a member of the Nez Perce Nation, whose term of enrollment has expired and whose mother is requesting her return home. Pratt notes that the Nez Perce agent…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Transportation for Harriet Mary to Her Home456.7 KB
July 27, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt informs A. B. Upshaw that he has already filled the last remaining teaching vacancy at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Informs Office that He Filled Last Remaining Teaching Vacancy472.94 KB
July 29, 1886
Isaac H. Maynard, Second Comptroller, requests written evidence of the renewal of the lease of the Hocker Farm for the benefit of the Carlisle Indian School be filed with his office.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Second Comptroller Requests Hocker Farm Lease be Filed at Office522.13 KB
July 30, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding Nez Perce students at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that four students came to Carlisle in 1880 and two in 1883. Of those students who came in 1880 the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discussion of Nez Perce Students at Carlisle689.25 KB
July 30, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt writes regarding a request from Lieutenant Heistand of the 11 Infantry of an orphaned Sioux girl who his family taken in. Because of his posting on a military base he has been unable to enroll the girl in a school and so…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Wasu Ricker at the Carlisle Indian School643.2 KB
July 31, 1886
School Statistics Accompanying the Annual Report for the 1886 Fiscal Year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Reports
View Document: School Statistics Accompanying the Annual Report, 18861.05 MB
August 4, 1886 - August 5, 1886
Charles H. Potter, the U.S. Indian Agent for the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, forwards a list of names for appointment to the Industrial Boarding School at the Winnebago Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: List of Names for Appointment to the Omaha and Winnebago Industrial School987.62 KB
August 4, 1886
Voucher to cover expenses in the return of three run away students located and arrested in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Voucher Covering Travel Expenses to Recover Three Runaway Students468.57 KB
August 6, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt follows up with the Office of Indian Affairs regarding the transportation for Wasu Ricker from Mandan, North Dakota to Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Follow Up on Transportation for Wasu Ricker373.06 KB