An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ending 1880, containing the first annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses the school's opening, recruitment of students, educational and industrial curricula, and overall health. Also included…
Enrollment Statistics
1880
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Book
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Annual Reports, Building Repairs and Expansions, Industrial Training - General, Discipline - Student Court Process, Enrollment Statistics, Prisoners from Ft. Marion (1875-1878), School Curriculum, Student Deaths, School Newspapers, Students on Outings, County and State Fairs, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Industrial Program Statistics, School Band, Military-Style Training and Organization
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1881
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1881, containing the second annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The lengthy report includes discussions of curriculum, student recruitment, the school's campus, the success of the sending students on…
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Book
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Annual Reports, Enrollment Statistics, Student Illness, Industrial Training - General, Music Instruction, Students on Outings, Outing Patrons, Discipline - Student Court Process, Donations and Bequests to the School, County and State Fairs, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Students Writing Home, Prisoners from Ft. Marion (1875-1878), Industrial Program Statistics, Student Wages, Student Savings Accounts, Annual Examinations
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
October 1881
Page one opens with the Annual Report, followed by an article on School Room Work, which discussed learning English, musical instruction, and classroom examinations. Page two had “Wise Words for the Indians” by the President Garfield of Hampton Institute, Va. The main premise being that Labor must be free, and that Lab must simply be to form a…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
1882
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1882, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report includes discussions of school enrollment, experiences of students on outing and outing patrons, curriculum, wages for students,…
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Book
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Annual Reports, Industrial Training - General, Discipline - Enforcement of Rules, Enrollment Statistics, Students on Outings, Outing Patrons, Student Wages, Student Savings Accounts, Industrial Program Statistics, School Bakery, School Newspapers, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Donations and Bequests to the School, Students Speaking English, Military-Style Training and Organization
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1883
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1883, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report provides a table of enrollment statistics, and has two addendums: one, a lengthy report by Principal C. M. Semple on the school's…
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1884
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1884, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report includes discussions of enrollment statistics, transfers, educational and industrial progress, student health, the school farm, donations…
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1885
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1885, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report includes a school population table as well as discussions of industry, academic work, dormitory expansions, and sanitary…
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
November 13, 1885
The first page opened with a poem titled "Found in the Path," followed by an article called "Are You His Equal?" that described an incident in which the Man-on-the-Band-Stand criticized a Carlisle student's letter home because it complained about having to work with a man with darker…
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Newspapers
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Student Awards and Prizes, Industrial Training - Tinsmithing, Enrollment Statistics, Student and Former Student Criticism of the School, School Employees - Industrial Training, School Employees - Teachers, School Employees - Building and Maintenance Staff, Religious Activities at the School, Students Writing Home
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Cumberland County Historical Society
November 20, 1885
The first page opened with a poem titled "Suppose," followed by a story by P.B. called, "An Indian Story" about using the powers of observation to identify a thief. The other items on the page were two short geography queries. Page two recounted national news items including the hanging of Louis Riel for…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
November 27, 1885
The first page opens with a poem titled “Snow Brings Fun” followed by “How to Write to Your Mother,” directing to a young man with instructions for how to reply to his mother who was pleading for his return home. The page ends with a national news item and a joke. Page two opens with a series of news items including American political news and…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
December 18, 1885
The first page opens with a poem titled “For the Boys,” followed by a description of “Loafing” observed by the Man-on-the-band-stand among the boys on campus. There is also a feature, “200,000,000" that tallies up the time it would take to become as rich as Mr. Vanderbilt ending with financial advice for students. Page two reports miscellaneous…
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Newspapers
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Students Running Away, Industrial Training - Laundry, Student Deaths, Students on Outings, Local Businesses, Student Travel, School Band, Industrial Training - Tinsmithing, School Employees - Industrial Training, School Employees - Religious, School Farms - Statistics, Enrollment Statistics, Ice skating at the school
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Cumberland County Historical Society
1886
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1886, containing the Seventh Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school population table as well as discussions of…
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
November 12, 1886
The first page opened with a poem titled "A Fourteen-Year-Old Girl's Good Advice," followed by an article called "The Menomonees and Pottawatomies Dance: A Story by Lucy Jordan, Stockbridge, a pupil from Wisconsin," that told of an 1882 visit by dancers to her home agency in Keshena, Wisconsin. Page two included an offer of photographs for new…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
February 18, 1887
The first page opened with the poem, "You Conquer Me, Me Conquer You" followed by a letter from Rev. Edward F. Wilson of the Shingwauk Home titled "An Indian School in Canada," which described Wilson’s report to the Indian Department of Canada on his visit to Carlisle, the Lincoln Institute and the Hampton Institute. It continued on the last…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
1887
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1887, containing the Eighth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school population table as well as discussions of industry…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1888
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1888, containing the Ninth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school population table as well as discussions of industry…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
October 26, 1888
The first page opens with an untitled poem. The next article titled “Peter Powlass,” contains a letter with news about events at the Oneida, Wisconsin Reservation written by former student, Peter Powlass. It is followed by “U.S. Congress,” that reported the schedule of the Fiftieth Congress. Page two contains news from the YMCA, the boys’…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
February 1, 1889
The first page began with an untitled poem that opened with the first line “We can never be too careful,” followed by “Which Would You Rather Be a Spider or a Fly? / The White Man Like a Spider,” an account of Mr. Seger’s description of the idiosyncrasies of language translation. It continued on the fourth page. Page two featured news articles…
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Newspapers
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Cumberland County Historical Society
1889
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1889, containing the Tenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a school population table as well as discussions of the…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1890
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1890, containing the Eleventh Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a history of the school's founding and a table of the…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1890-1891
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1891, containing the Twelfth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as discussions…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1892
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1892, containing the Thirteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1893
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1893, containing the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1894
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1894, containing the Fifteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as…
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Book
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Annual Reports, Enrollment Statistics, Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Animals and Livestock, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Apache Prisoners of War (1886-1887), World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Religious Activities at the School, School Band Performances
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1895
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1895, containing the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report, submitted by Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt, includes a table of the school's population, as well as…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections