Outing Program Administration

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Register of Applications For Student Workers (1885-1890)
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Outings

Entries in the Register of Applications For Student Workers include the applicant's name, their address, date of application, the date when work was required, and the type of work (such as farming). Some entries also include the name and address of applicants' references, names of…

Outings - Register of Pupils (1890-1899)
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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 1890 and 1899. This outing section runs from page 84 through page 143 of the register. The list of outings includes the name of the student, their nation, the…

Page 84, Outings - Register of Pupils (1899-1900)
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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…

Page 4, Registers of Outings - Boys (1908-1917)
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Outings

The Registers of "Outings" includes entries with students' name, the date of placement or leaving the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to school, and occasionally other information. Volume 4 has the records for boys between 1908 and 1917 and…

Page 10, Registers of Outings - Girls (1909-1915)
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Outings

The Registers of Outings include entries with students' name, the date of placement or departing the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to the school, and occasionally other information. Volume 2 has the records for girls between 1909 and 1915 and…

Page 2, Registers of Outings - Girls (1909-1918)
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Outings

The Registers of "Outings" includes entries with students' name, the date of placement or leaving the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to school, and occasionally other information. Volume 3 has the records for girls between 1909 and 1918 and…

Plan for Outing System in Massachusetts
June 15, 1880

Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that he would like students to have outings on farms located in Berkshire and Hampshire counties in Massachusetts. According to Pratt's plan, the Bureau of Indian Affairs would pay for the students' transit while students would pay for their food and washing expenses.…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Place Students in Massachusetts for Summer
June 24, 1880

Richard Henry Pratt asks Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. J. Brooks if he will accept his request to place a party of students in Massachusetts for the summer.

Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry 79, "Letters…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Outing Host's Experience and Desire for Reimbursement for Students' Board
December 13, 1880

Alexander Hyde writes to Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz about his experience as an outing host for three Carlisle Indian School students, Lulu, Stephen, and Frank, in the Summer of 1880. Hyde states that he heard about outing from his daughter, Mary R. Hyde, who works as a girl's matron at Carlisle and that he enjoyed his time as a host…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Proposal for Extended Outings
July 28, 1881

Richard Henry Pratt requests that he be allowed to extend the outings of certain students until the winter in order to allow them to attend the country schools located near their patrons.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Hampton Normal School Recruiting Married Omaha Couples
July 19-22, 1882

Samuel C. Armstrong writes that the Hampton Normal Institute is willing to educate three married Omaha couples along with three girls and one boy as government students if Alice C. Fletcher is able to bring them with the Sioux delegation going to the Carlisle Indian School. Richard Henry Pratt notes that he would be willing to accept married…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Update on Outing System for Summer of 1882
August 14, 1882

Richard Henry Pratt provides a report on the outing system for the Summer of 1882. Pratt notes that he placed 85 students in homes for the Summer and that he was able to secure transportation costs from patrons as well as a salary for the student. Pratt ends by requesting the ability to visit students who remain on outing over the fall.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Proposal for Increased Appropriation from Osage Fund
February 13, 1883

Richard Henry Pratt provides the Indian Affairs Office with proposed text for receiving funds for educating Osage students from the Osage trust fund. Pratt notes that if he does not receive the funds for the Osage then he can place more students on outing to reduce costs for running the school.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Authority Sought to Visit Students on Outing
July 15, 1883

Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to visit students on outing in order to determine how students are doing and whether they should be able to remain during the winter in order to attend local public schools. Pratt also requests authority to pay for the transportation expenses of certain students on outing to return to the school. …

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Response to Secretary of the Interior Regarding Fort Marion Students
October 14, 1886

Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar regarding sending children and young adults at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt provides details on the number of students that can be accommodated at Carlisle through temporary shelters and through sending students…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Details Finances for Returning Students to Their Homes
June 4, 1887

Richard Henry Pratt details finances to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding returning students to their homes.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Authority Sought to Pay Agents to Visit Outing Pupils
September 5, 1887

Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to pay expenses of agents visiting pupils on farms and in families. Pratt notes that the cost will be $300 and the funds are already to his credit.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Use of Penalty Envelopes for Patrons' Outing Reports
April 13, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt inquires from the Office of Indian Affairs if he can furnish outing patrons with penalty envelopes for them to mail back outing reports on Carlisle Indian School students. Pratt notes that due to the increase in outing students covering the postage of these reports has become a large expense which could be mitigated through…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Requests Authority to Spend Money Visiting Outing Students
July 9, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money allowing Carlisle Indian School staff to visit outing students during the 1889 fiscal year.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Send William Campbell to Crow and Sioux Agencies
October 23, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt notes that with the completion of the new school building the Carlisle Indian School can accommodate 500 students on its campus. He further indicates that 189 students are currently on outing with only a few in any one district school allowing them to speak English on a more regular basis.

Pratt then discusses that…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Report on the Work of Anne S. Ely, Outing Agent
January 7, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the responsibilities of Anne S. Ely, Agent for Outing Pupils at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt indicates that Ely oversees all aspects of the Outing program including corresponding with the students and patrons as well as arranging transportation as well as…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Employ Short Hand Type Writer Over 1889 Summer
July 11, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt requests to employ a short hand type writer during July, August, and part of September 1889 in order to correspond with outing students.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Request Authority to Spend Money for Agents to Visit Outing Pupils
July 12, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $400 a year for traveling and incidental expenses of school agents to visit students on the outing program. In addition, he requests $60 to purchase ice for the hospital, kitchen, and school use during the fiscal year.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
System of Savings for Carlisle Indian School Students
December 16, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter which enclosed a letter from W. B. Backus, Superintendent of the Genoa School, in reference to a system of savings for students. Pratt notes that he believes he fills the place of a parent for the students at the Carlisle Indian School, that he considered teaching students about…

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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Recruiting Students from the Crow and Piegan Agencies and Outing Pupils
December 30, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt details how various incoming student parties have diminished and he is therefore able to receive additional students from the Crow Agency in Montana as well as the Piegan Agency. Pratt notes that if the Crow and Piegan funds could be used to transport students then they could take as many students as possible.

Pratt…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration