Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the pay of students for apprentice work. Pratt provides the history of paying students at Carlisle and the justification for such payments. Also included is a copy of a letter written to a previous Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1886.
1890-1899
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Discharged
The Data Concerning Former Students ledger provides information about students who left the school before 1898. Entries, which are arranged by class year, include the former students' name, tribe, address, and occasionally remarks on their life after leaving Carlisle. Pages without…
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Enrollment
Entries in the Enrollment Status Book include the student names, symbol notations for each month, and written remarks related to attendance. This volume, which covers the period from July 1898 to March 1902, lists boys and girls in separate sections and arranges them by the students'…
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Outings
The Outing section of this Register of Pupils lists those students who went on outings while at the school between the years 1899 and 1900. This outing section runs from page 84 through page 124 of the register. The list of outings includes the name of the student, their nation, the…
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Employment
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1899, containing a table of Indian School Employees for the Carlisle Indian Training School. The table includes employee name, position, salary, sex, race, date of…
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Enrollment
The Admitted section of this Registers of Pupils lists those students who were enrolled at the school between 1899 and 1906. This list, which appears on pages 1 through 80 of this register, has entries that are numbered beginning with 2306 and continues from the Admitted pages in the…
February 18, 1886 - February 6, 1892
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 1, 1887
This is a card tracking the details of Richard Davis' employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. He began working at Carlisle as an assistant disciplinarian in 1887, resigned in 1888, and returned as a dairy manager/dairyman from 1891 to 1894.
Note: upon request for Davis' Official Personnel Folder at the National Archives in St. Louis…
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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 13, 1889
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1891 amounting to $20,356.86 for support of the school and transportation of Indian supplies, $8,000.00 of which is for regular employee pay.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 6, 1889
Supplementary estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1890 amounting to $1,003.67 for the purchase of mules, horses, lawnmower, and support of the school.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 17, 1889 - September 23, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a report from Alfred John Standing regarding his trip to Michigan and Minnesota to recruit students for the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt details the obstacles Standing experienced including maintaining a relatively equal gender ratio and the decentralized nature of the various communities and poor prior experiences…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 29, 1889 - February 11, 1890
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists a new employee (Clara C. McAdam) and those who have changed positions (T. W. Potter and Fisk Goodyear). This report includes personal information about each employee. Pratt also sends McAdam's application for a position as a teacher, including references. An explanatory cover letter is…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 11, 1889
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1890 amounting to $4,042.50 for areas covering the Civilization Fund and the support of the school.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 16, 1889
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1890 amounting to $10,050.75 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $8,130.00 for regular employee pay.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 27, 1889 - January 4, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request from George E. Gerowe, Superintendent of the Fort Stevenson Indian School, to enroll six students at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he has little transportation funds left but would be willing to bring the students to Carlisle as long as two…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
1890
A list of students compiled by Reverend George Diffenderfer while out west recruiting new students. Includes names, sex, supposed dates attended school, and occasionally comments regarding the student. The notebook also names and ages of prospective students.
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Notebooks
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Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
January 2, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Office of Indian Affairs with the attendance figures for the Carlisle Indian School in January 1890 and for the last quarter.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 2, 1890
Fordyce Grinnell, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for December 1889.
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 2, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the visiting Sioux delegation claims of thirty to seventy per cent death rate of returned students dying within four years. Pratt writes that Carlisle has returned 101 students to the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies and 82 are living today.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 2, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he understands the opposition of the visiting Sioux delegation to Eastern Schools. Pratt notes that when they come to the East they could see that assertions are incorrect.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 3, 1890
A. F. H. Abbott sends two checks for $15 each to Pratt as further installments for a sum owed by Frances Johnson.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
January 4, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that it would be best to allow the Sioux Delegation to visit the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 4, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt replies to the Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request by Dr. A. B. McCandless to enter the Indian Service.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 4, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt asks the Office of Indian Affairs how many individuals are in the new Sioux delegation.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 7, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt requests from the Office of Indian Affairs information on if and when to expect the Sioux delegation at the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 8, 1890
Robert V. Belt of the Department of the Interior Office of Indian Affairs writes to Richard Henry Pratt thanking him for his recent hospitality during a visit to the Carlisle Indian School, and sending sympathies for the deaths of Carlisle's clerk, Mr. Gould, and physician, Dr. Given.
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Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library