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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March 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that 101 pupils are due to be returned to their homes after having spent five years at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt digresses from his request to cover transportation for these pupils…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Informs Office of Upcoming Student Departures1.42 MB
March 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests confirmation from the Office of Indian Affairs that his actions in placing seven more tickets at De Pere, Wisconsin through the Pennsylvania Railroad due to a request from the Oneida Nation to send six more students…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Seven More Tickets for Oneida Students401.93 KB
March 17, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that his physician has recommended sending home four students from the Pine Ridge Agency due to poor health. Pratt requests that the transportation to Pine Ridge be provided to him and that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Four Students from Pine Ridge to Their Home468.04 KB
March 22, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests a telegram regarding a promise that the President and Secretary gave to a group of visiting Apache chiefs to send home two students at the Carlisle Indian School with them to serve as interpreters. Pratt recommends…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests Telegram Regarding Sending Apache Students Home as Interpreters438.43 KB
March 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Henry Outa is too weak to travel to his home. Instead his ticket is being used to return Harry Raven, who was also being sent home to illness.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Change in Plans for Returning Two Students435.66 KB
March 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests that a ticket be provided for an escort of Oneida students back to De Pere, Wisconsin.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Travel for Non-Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Ticket for Oneida Escort450.95 KB
March 24, 1888
Cover letter forwarding descriptive statement of students who arrived from De Pere, Wisconsin on March 23, 1888 and those who departed for the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency and the San Carlos Agency.
Note: The descriptive statement itself…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Enrollment Lists, Student Travel Departing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Cover Letter Forwarding Descriptive List of Students for March 23, 1888264.56 KB
March 31, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt asks the Office of Indian Affairs to confirm his actions in placing two additional tickets for girls from the Green Bay Agency at the request of the U.S. Indian agent for the agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Two Additional Tickets for Green Bay Agency Students396.55 KB
April 1, 1888
This service card tracks Chester P. Cornelius' record of employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. He began working at Carlisle as an assistant disciplinarian in 1888, leaving in 1891. He then went on to be a teacher, storekeeper, and leasing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Chester P. Cornelius Service Record Card2.29 MB
April 4-16, 1888
Charles Robinson, Superintendent of the Haskell Institute, forwards a letter from Richard Henry Pratt requesting from the U.S. Indian Agent at the Pawnee Agency transportation for Pollock to the Carlisle Indian School. In the letter E. C. Osborne…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment and Transfer of William Pollock to Carlisle1.37 MB
April 4, 1888
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1888 amounting to $10,658.30 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $7,292.50 for regular employee pay.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Second Quarter 18881.49 MB
April 5, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt notes that the Carlisle Indian School has been operating for eight years and has produced a number of students capable of becoming teachers. He proposes establishing a normal school course at Carlisle to better prepare future…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Establish a Normal School Course at Carlisle1010.6 KB
April 5, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs actions he has taken regarding Simon Powlas, the escort of the Oneida Nation students recently arrived at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that as Powlas had already waited a number…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Travel for Non-Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Oneida Student Escort to Green Bay Agency548.56 KB
April 8, 1888 - April 9, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt forwards an anonymous letter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania regarding three members of the Omaha Nation in a show. Pratt recommends that something be done to aid the individuals in question.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Anonymous Letter Regarding Show in Pennsylvania677.91 KB
April 9-11, 1888
These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 4 individuals transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Green Bay Agency, and 4 individuals discharged from Carlisle and transferred back to their…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
April 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt inquires from the Office of Indian Affairs if he can furnish outing patrons with penalty envelopes for them to mail back outing reports on Carlisle Indian School students. Pratt notes that due to the increase in outing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Use of Penalty Envelopes for Patrons' Outing Reports529.73 KB
April 16, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt forwards to the Office of Indian Affairs the lease of the Hocker Farm and requests its renewal by the Office's endorsement. Pratt also encloses the agreement between the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Approval of Lease for the Hocker Farm436.03 KB
April 20, 1888
William S. Day, Auditor, acknowledges receipt of the notice of extension of lease between Rev. J. A. McCauley, R. M. Henderson, Richard Henry Pratt, and the Office of Indian Affairs for the Henderson Farm.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Auditor Acknowledges Receipt of Extension of Henderson Farm Lease365.83 KB
April 20, 1888
Richard R. McMahon, Acting Comptroller, informs John D. C. Atkins that he has received Atkins letter regarding the extension of the lease between J. A. McCauley, R. M. Henderson, and Richard Henry Pratt to reduce the annual rental of the farm to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Comptroller Replies to Extension of Henderson Farm360.52 KB
April 20, 1888
Captain Richard H. Pratt provides the Commissioner of Indian Affairs with a list of irregular labor required for May 1888. Pratt also includes details on compensation, position title, and the number of workdays required for the month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Irregular Employees Required for May 1888316.85 KB
April 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he has received their letter advising the continuance for one year of the lease on the Hocker Farm.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Informs Office of Receipt of Letter Advising Continuance of Hocker Farm Lease328.8 KB
April 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request from Colonel Loomis Langdon, commanding officer at Fort Langdon, regarding enrolling two Apache students at Carlisle. Pratt notes that he would be more than…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation for Two Apache Students from Fort Barrancas631.2 KB
April 27, 1888
J. V. Summers, U.S. Indian Agent for the Quapaw Agency, forwards a request from Henry Hicks that his daughter Delia Hicks be returned from the Carlisle Indian School. Hicks notes that he has secured a place for Delia at Earlham College where she…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Delia Hicks508.57 KB
April 30, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $240.00 to purchase a mule and two cows. An explanatory cover letter is included.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1888749 KB
May 4, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt addresses an Office of Indian Affairs letter concerning the request of Henry Hicks to return his daughter Delia Hicks from the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes his correspondence with Henry Hicks and notes that Delia's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Addresses Office Concerning Return of Delia Hicks784.12 KB