Telegram from Richard Henry Pratt to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs requesting $2,000 for food at the Carlisle Indian School and to cover expenses for a recruitment trip in the West. Pratt notes that he is leaving for Winfield, Kansas soon.
Employee Travel - Recruitment
October 8, 1879
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October 9, 1879
Richard H. Pratt writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra Hayt regarding a board to appraise property at the Carlisle Barracks. Pratt notes that, because of the timing of this visit, he will be unable to meet a group of recruited students in the West as planned, and instead suggests sending teachers Alfred J. Standing and Sarah Mather.…
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October 11, 1879
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that funds promised in previous correspondence have not yet been received. Pratt warns that, if the funds are not received soon, he will be unable to meet recruited students at Winfield, Kansas as previously arranged.
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October 17, 1879
Richard Henry Pratt telegrams the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, noting that no tickets were on deposit for recruited Cheyenne and Kiowa students met in Wichita, Kansas. Pratt also notes that the Osage did not receive enough information about the request for students, and that the Pawnee and Ponca agents had not heard about the request. Pratt…
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October 29, 1879
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt writes to Samuel Chapman Armstrong at Hampton to report that Indian Agent Charles Crissey left Standing Rock and will likely reach Yankton soon.
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February 23, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt telegrams the Commissioner of Indian Affairs asking for permission to send Alfred John Standing to the Comanche Agency to recruit students. Pratt also asks if the former Florida prisoners can be sent back.
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February 25, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests a quick reply to his telegram of February 23, requesting permission to send Alfred John Standing to the Comanche Agency to recruit students.
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April 2, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt references the recent denial of the detail of Lieutenant Brown for recruiting, and then informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he can recruit students himself from New Mexico and Colorado in after the Dakota Chiefs visit the Carlisle Indian School.
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April 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that A. J. Standing incurred $206.80 in expenses. Pratt asks that the funds be placed on his next remittance.
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April 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt transmits a copy of a voucher that covers all the items of expense from A. J. Standing's trip that Pratt paid for.
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October 8, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to travel to the Sisseton, Green Bay, and La Pointe agencies in order to recruit 25 new students. As he would like more than half to be girls, he also requests to bring a female assistant on the trip.
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October 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks if he has authority to bring a female assistant on his trip to recruit new students and requests a book of sub-voucher blanks.
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July 12, 1882
Richard Henry Pratt details the number of students he is able to accept from various Indian Agencies including the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, Kiowa and Comanche, Pawnee and Ponca, and the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Pratt provides instructions as to the preferred age and gender composition of the students and notes that he has already arranged for…
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August 26 - September 1, 1882
Acting Secretary of the Interior, M. L. Joslyn, instructs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to stop Richard Henry Pratt from traveling West as had written previously. Pratt had desired to go West in order to bring back Sioux students from various agencies as well as a group of Navajo students.
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September 11, 1882
Richard Henry Pratt requests the Commissioner of Indian Affairs reconsider its decision to not allow him personally to go select students at the Navajo and Sioux Agencies. Pratt believes that none of his employees have the requisite knowledge to successfully select students from the agencies.
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October 31, 1882
Richard H. Pratt submits this Monthly School Report for October 1882.
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November 30, 1882
Richard Henry Pratt submits this Monthly School Report for November 1882, which includes a list of text books used for the academic education, industrial trades taught, information on the arrival of students from Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies, and enrollment by nation.
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November 14, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt reports on his arrival back to the Carlisle Indian School with 60 students. He notes that with the 88 students on outing the school has a total of 424 students. He requests written authority to bring additional students from Indian Territory and the Dakotas.
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July 28, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt provides his travel plans to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for his trip West to recruit students for the Carlisle Indian School. He includes stops at the Lawrence and Chilocco Indian Schools as well as the Kaw and Osage Agencies.
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July 25, 1885
Notice of intent by Richard Henry Pratt that either he or the Carlisle Indian School physician Obadiah G. Given is set to visit the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies to enroll 75 students. Pratt notes that due to students at Rosebud being sent to Genoa and Lincoln, in addition to the opposition to the Catholic Church, they are unlikely to enroll…
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August 14, 1885
Richard Henry Pratt requests that Dr. Obadiah G. Given be given transportation for himself and 60 students at Rushville, Nebraska and 20 students at Valentine, Nebraska.
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August 16, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt forwards expense vouchers related to the recruitment of students in the Omaha and Winnebago Agency as well as the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies.
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January 25, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt provides his recommendations on securing a party of Navajo students for the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt indicates that the agent should attempt to gather 50 students with a minimum of one-third of the party being girls and to have no students under the age of 12. When the party is ready he can have a Carlisle School…
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April 22, 1896
Richard Henry Pratt requests to meet with Antoino Apache, Dr. Carlos Montezuma, and others in Chicago. Pratt notes that he is going on a recruiting trip and asks Apache and Montezuma to travel with him to the San Carlos and Pima Agencies.
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June 3, 1905
William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he is leaving for the Northwest on a trip to recruit students for the Carlisle Indian School.
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