This material includes the May 1918 inspection of the Carlisle Indian School by W. S. Coleman. The included correspondence between Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells and Coleman discusses the health conditions of outing students and the general campus, conditions at the school farm, and school athletics.
Sells, Cato
May 1, 1918
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May 2, 1918 - April 29, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning former student Sarah Celia Monteith, and her certificate of competency for self-administration of trust allotments.
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 16, 1918 - June 8, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher C. W. Blair writes to Pennsylvania State College Registrar Professor A. H. Espenshade about designing curriculum that would prepare students to attend college. He sends an example of what classes an Indian School student would take and asks Blair if that coursework would get them into Penn State.
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May 20 - June 15, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Alex Washington, who had joined the U. S. Army, and Commissioner Cato Sells concerning Washington's desire to transfer his assignment to the ship-building plant at Hog Island, Pennsylvania.
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June 10-11, 1918
This material includes letters about the employment of some outing students at the American International Shipbuilding Company, and how their wages would be handled by the school.
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 24, 1918 - June 2, 1919
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Isaac Longshore, a former student who returned to the school for a visit. Longshore was interred in the school cemetery.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 9, 1918 - February 14, 1940
These materials include correspondence, official records, and other documents related to the closure of the Carlisle Indian School in 1918. Discussed topics include the transfer of the land from the Department of the Interior to the Department of War, the transfer of property to other Indian schools, and the discharge and transfer of students…
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July 27 - August 8, 1918
Banker and outing patron R. H. Headley asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there is any way that he can host an Indian boy at his home after the Carlisle Indian School closes. Headley states that he has been an outing host since 1900 and would like to continue to be one if at all possible.
Assistant Commissioner E. B.…
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August 5-9, 1918
Emma K. Hetrick writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to request to host a female Carlisle Indian School student at their house to cook and do housework. Commissioner Cato Sells tells Hetrick that the school will be closing on September 1, and the students will be transferred to western schools, so he cannot accommodate her request.
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September 11, 1918 - October 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence containing a request from Fred Skenandore, a former student, regarding the status of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informed Skenandore that the school had been closed, but that the Haskell Institute was still operating as usual.
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October 8-19, 1918
These materials include a request from George Cushing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, asking for permission to take the students' course in automobile manufacturing at the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Cushing's request is denied, due to his current work in shipbuilding at the Hog Island ship yards in…
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November 30, 1918 - February 26, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the health of Clara Shunion. Shunion stayed in Pennsylvania on outing following the close of the Carlisle School, and developed tuberculous. After residing for some time in the Bryn Mawr Hospital, the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia, and the home of former outing patron Elizabeth D. Edge,…
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January 25 - March 1, 1919
This document contains correspondence between Lyman B. Madison and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Frederick Walker's request to discharge from the United States Navy.
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February 6, 1919
Cato Sells replies to Henry G. Thomas, Secretary to Senator Robert L. Owen, regarding the request of Mrs. C. D. Markham for information on the American Indian. Sells provides some information about a publication about Geronimo, the reason for the return of the Carlisle Indian School to the War Department, and encloses the Annual Report for the…
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June 24, 1919 - January 12, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding an attempt by Alaskan student Joseph S. Sheehan to purchase land in Baltimore.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 2-11, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Edwin C. Allen about re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School after hearing rumors that the School was being reopened.
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- March 5, 1990
Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…
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March 5-22, 1924
These materials include correspondence and a draft letter to Congress regarding an upcoming bill to transfer the additional land acquired by the Carlisle Indian School during its tenure from the Department of the Interior to the Department of War. Included is a copy of an earlier letter, from 1918, discussing the possibility of such a transfer…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration