Sac & Fox

Richard Henry Pratt telegrams Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Edwin J. Brooks, informing him that a group of Iowa and Sac & Fox children arrived safely and will be held as directed.

Samuel Chapman Armstrong of the Hampton Institute writes to Richard Henry Pratt discussing capacity issues at that school, including the arrival of five Omaha boys which increased enrollment at Hampton to its maximum. Armstrong also mentions Sac & Fox students and the enrollment of Indian students via both government and private support.

These materials include a cover letter, correspondence, and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding Moses Neal of the Sac & Fox Agency requesting admission for Christina Moore (Coch-na-qua) and Stanley (Po-po) at the Carlisle Indian School. Neither individual ever enrolled at Carlisle.

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

This program was distributed for the 1908 Commencement Exercises, which took place on Thursday, April 2nd. Inside features a portrait of Moses Friedman, the Superintendent, Francis E. Leupp, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Charles H. Dickson, the Supervisor-in Charge, as well as a portrait of the Class of 1908. Included is a full schedule…

This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…