These materials include a memorandum about reforms made to Carlisle Indian School policies by Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps in response to a 1914 Congressional investigation. The outlined reforms included curtailing the outing program, changing the courses of study, standardizing disciplinary measures, increasing arrests of local bootleggers,…
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March 26, 1915
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March 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding Carlisle's policy regarding the treatment and discharge of students who contract a venereal disease while enrolled at the school.
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Letters/Correspondence
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March 31, 1915 - April 28, 1915
Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh request to use their tribal funds to visit home during vacations. The responses and views of the Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School are included.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 2, 1915 - January 6, 1942
These materials include documents, correspondence, and legal documents related to a number of bequests and inheritances made to the Carlisle Indian School. The correspondence largely deals with questions of whether and how such bequests should be accepted, what they could be used for, and how they should be reallocated once the Carlisle Indian…
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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April 5, 1915 - September 16, 1915
Report on the Vocational Courses in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts and Home Economics for the Carlisle Indian School by H. L. Kent, Special Supervisor and correspondence surrounding the report. Kent's report focuses on making Carlisle a secondary vocational school focusing on agriculture, mechanical arts, and home economics including courses of…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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April 6-10, 1915
Hattie Martin requests clarification about enrollment guidelines for government education and whether Martin qualifies to attend Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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April 7, 1915 - May 5, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from April 7 were spent.
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April 10 - 12, 1915
These materials include correspondence from Cato Sells regarding a request from Nancy Lane that Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh to use their pro rata shares of the tribal trust fund to visit their home during the school vacation.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 17 - October 9, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding creating a survey for Indians that have attended boarding schools. By creating a survey, Lipps hopes to discover whether former students are more successful if they return home to their reservations or if they settle in…
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April 22, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the need for superintendents of nonreservation schools to communicate when students attempt to re-enroll in a different school, using two former Carlisle students as examples.
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Letters/Correspondence
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April 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence to the father of William Ghost Dog, notifying him that William saved the two-year-old son of the school printer from drowning.
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Letters/Correspondence
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April 26, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the desertion of Ben Bearchild from Carlisle, and funds to pay for a baseball uniform.
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April 28, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Hermis Merrivall to his home in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 29, 1915 - May 12, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the release of Hannah Kennedy from the Sleighton Farm reformatory school for girls into the care of Mary T. Scheurman.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 29, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding Supervisor Oscar Lipps' decision to send Edward Brien back to his home in North Dakota.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 1, 1915
These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted under Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps.
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Reports
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History of the Carlisle Indian School, School Employees - General, Inspection of the School, Discipline - General, Student Living Conditions, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Industrial Training - General, Tobacco Use at the School, Interactions with Local Population, Inspection Reports
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May 3-12, 1915
These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who reportedly visited the east end of the town for parties with local residents. Superintendent Lipps…
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May 4-20, 1915
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps that they have several strategic maps of central Europe and asks if they would be useful at the school. Lipps replies that they would be "very glad to have these maps" in the school library. Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs Lipps that he…
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May 10-11, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt requests that the Carlisle Indian School print 3,000 bulletins from Boise, Idaho. The bulletin is called "Official News from the State Board of Health." Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps informs Meritt that they will print the bulletins after they work through…
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May 12, 1915
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response.
In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…
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May 12-14, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Lipps that they will consider supplying the funds once the fiscal year is over.
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May 14 - 29, 1915
These materials include a request by LeRoy Spencer to take a course in chemical engineering at Carlisle. As Carlisle did not offer work in chemistry and chemical engineering, he was sent the Arrow with a course catalog.
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May 20-29, 1915
These materials include a report and correspondence regarding H. B. Peairs' investigation of discipline at the Carlisle Indian School in May, 1915. The report notes numerous improvements that were made and should be pursued. Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps addresses the report's recommendations.
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May 20, 1915
These materials include a report by H. B. Peairs on the discipline among boys at the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses changes enacted by Oscar Hiram Lipps, who was promoted from Supervisor in Charge to Superintendent during this discipline investigation.
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Reports
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May 21, 1915 - July 3, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the disciplining of Harvey Concho for altering checks.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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