Carlisle Indian School Policy and Policy Changes

These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the exclusion of Charles Geck from the Carlisle Indian School. Geck was released from the school as a result that he had access to public schools near his home in Oklahoma.

These materials include correspondence and pamphlets related to circular orders and regulations in force at the Carlisle Indian School under Superintendent Moses Friedman. Friedman forwarded the documents to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for approval. The forwarded documents include a blank Pupil's Health Report, the Outline of Course for…

This document contains correspondence concerning the retention of students with tuberculosis at boarding schools including Carlisle. Indian Service officials including Joseph Murphy, Medical Supervisor and Ferdinand Shoemaker, Physical Expert in Tuberculosis and Trachoma for the Indian Service make policy suggestions.

These materials include correspondence regarding students' heritage. Specifically, officials sought information on students' blood quantum, as changing policy barred the enrollment of students considered to have less than one-fourth degree Indian blood. Also included are total enrollment statistics for the beginning of 1912.

These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment status of students impacted by changing school admissions policies. The list includes students whose homes were within close proximity to public schools, who were over the age of 24, and those making slow academic progress. 

These materials include correspondence regarding a question from Hattie Martin, of Haverford, Pennsylvania, on whether Indian students with black heritage were excluded from enrolling in the Carlisle Indian School. School and federal officials debated on how to respond. Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman argued that those students often…

Supervisor of Indian Funds Benton informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott that $35,000 of Carlisle Indian School students' money is held in the Farmers Trust Company in Carlisle, and the school handles all business and all record-keeping of this money. Benton recommends that the students should have to keep an account book and…

These materials include correspondence concerning the funds of a group of students, and how large checks for individual pupils should be deposited and controlled by the Superintendent. This includes students from the Pawnee and Winnebago Nations.

These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Tony B. M. Tommie (referred to as B. H. Tommie in this file), a member of the Seminole Nation of Florida, at the Carlisle Indian School.

These materials include a draft and final letter to Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School, regarding a new form, Form 5-249, for method reporting. The letter also explains new reporting procedures regarding enrollment and outing students.

These materials include financial documents, legal documents, and correspondence concerning multiple financial concerns of the school, such as railroad bonds, legacy trust funds, fundraising, donations, and checks for minors. 

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to change admission rules for students from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Prior to Lipps request, students from these Nations were required to pay both tuition and transportation. The revision allowed students with financial need to attend…

These materials include correspondence and a government document regarding a new policy for student vacation requests. Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps notes that, because the circular outlining the policy was received late, some students did not fill out the necessary vacation request form. Lipps requests clarification on how to handle the case…

These materials include correspondence and a circular internal to the Carlisle Indian School regarding economy and waste in the school's industrial departments.

These materials include numerous suggestions from Oscar Hiram Lipps and Dennison Wheelock regarding changes that should be made to policy and staff at the Carlisle Indian School. Lipps' suggestions focus on disciplinary measures, the end of preferential treatment for athletes, and staff changes. Lipps also requests that a superintendent for…

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,…

This document contains correspondence concerning policies governing the graduating class of 1917. This includes a list of students receiving diplomas, required grades, and other related policies.

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from outing patrons Henry and Clara McEwen that Carlisle allow outing pupils for work on Pennsylvania farms in the upcoming fall. Their request is denied because of curriculum changes at the school.

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. denies Alfred A. Marlatt to host a student on outing over the winter because the school's new policy requires all students to stay at the school over the winter unless they can attend public school for a full term while on outing.

Marlatt forwards Francis Jr.'s letter to Secretary of…

This material includes correspondence related to the request of George Gore, a farmer and outing patron in Newton, Pennsylvania, to retain some outing students beyond their normal term. Specific correspondence relates to students John Wolfe and Cornelius Hardman (here Cornelius Hartman). Additionally, this material discusses the decision of…