These materials include correspondence regarding the outing situation of Susan Littleshield and Sarah Chubb at the Columbus Barracks in Columbus, Ohio.
Outing Program Administration
![Susan Littleshield and Sarah Chubb Outing Situation Susan Littleshield and Sarah Chubb Outing Situation](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b032_f17_16390_0001.jpg?itok=bIJNd0_R)
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Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee informs Mr. J. L. Gilman that he is referring his question about the Carlisle Indian School's outing system to Superintendent Moses Friedman but that the school does not send students to Massachusetts because it is too far away. Gilman thanks Larrabee for the response.
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request from the father of Cody Printup to have Printup visit home over the summer vacation. The request was denied due to a policy of Superintendent Moses Friedman to have students go on the outing program rather than return home to continue their education and training.
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Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke requests Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to create a report on student outings from July 1, 1909 to April 1, 1910. A few days later Hauke asks for a statement outlining the overall plan for the outing system. Friedman sends blank copies of each of the forms used in implementing outings and a rule…
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These materials contain correspondence regarding the number of students on the outing program, and their potential competition with white workers.
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Walter S. Davis asks Congressman John H. Rothermel to influence the Carlisle Indian School for him because he would like to have "two of the trained servants" from the school, but the school's policy is to not send students to cities the size of Reading, which is where Davis lives.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine…
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Education Division Chief J. H. Dortch requests that Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman send information about the outing system to J. J. Gardner. Friedman informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he has sent Gardner an outing application and a copy of Outing Rules.
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Outing request form dated November 8, 1910, to Moses Friedman from Alice M. Bellanger that outlines various outing rules.
![Explanation of Why Female Students Declined an Outing Explanation of Why Female Students Declined an Outing](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b032_f30_85532_0004.jpg?itok=dc0AXKP-)
Representative Thomas J. Soully forwards a letter from James M. Ziegler to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Acting Commissioner Cato Sells forwards Soully's and Ziegler's letters to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman and explains that Ziegler is looking to be a host for a female student on outing.
Friedman…
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Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $250 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa, 1914" account for general traveling expenses associated with the Outing System and for expenses incurred while visiting the students. C. F. Hauke grants authority.
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These materials include correspondence regarding a disagreement between Morris Huff and Carlisle's outing authorities regarding his enrollment status at the school. Huff was living with his outing family while no longer a student, and the school objected this arrangement and sought to have Huff reenroll.
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In this affidavit Claude Stauffer answers questions about whether he has any agricultural training, a 1913 incident wherein he beat a student, and the practice of having musical accompaniment for lowering the flag. After the affidavit itself is a document signed by the stenographer who took down the conversation, Beatrice Herman.
In…
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The typed transcript of Rosa B. La Flesche's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time La Flesche worked at Carlisle as the Outing Manager, though she previously attended the school under the name Rosa Bourassa.
In her testimony La Flesche critiques Superintendent Friedman's administration in regards…
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In this affidavit, outing agent David H. Dickey explains his role in the outing program at Carlisle and his use of corporal punishment when he was acting disciplinarian in winter of 1913-1914.
In Inspector Linnen's main report for the 1914 Congressional investigation at Carlisle, this document is labelled Exhibit F-1.
Note:…
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Correspondence regarding the proposal to abolish the business/commercial department at the Carlisle Indian School while adding new courses focusing on home economics, mechanical arts, nursing, and agriculture. An additional focus is on the beginning of the Ford Outing Program. A copy of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 11, No. 22) that…
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These materials include correspondence regarding the return of Beulah Logan from her outing home to Carlisle.
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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,…
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This document contains correspondence concerning an arrangement with the General Electric Company to take four apprentices from Carlisle to work in the electrical department.
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Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt tells Carlisle Indian School Superintendent to prepare a financial report on the cost of pupils while on outing compared to the cost while they're at the school.
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These materials include correspondence responding to a request for data comparing the costs of pupils who remain at the school versus those who are outing. Superintendent Lipps includes a copy of the July 1916 Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 13, No. 1) that includes a statistical Outing Report for the fiscal year ending June 1916.
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C. V. Peel responds to Ernest W. Hancock's request for an outing student from the Carlisle Indian School. Peel notes that outing students will only be sent out in June following their examinations.
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This material includes correspondence regarding two students on the outing program on the farm of Jesse Webster. Webster is requesting an exception to a new outing program guideline that students return to the school for academic work in August, citing wartime government demands for more food production.
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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…
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These materials include correspondence regarding a revised outing policy for the summer of 1918 to met the demand for agricultural work while also satisfying newly established academic requirements.
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Inquiry from A. Reist Rutt regarding continuing the outing program following the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.