Request to Remain Enrolled

In other words, not to go home. This is not the same as a request to re-enroll.

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White Thunder's Desire to Marry his Sister-In-Law, a Student at the School
June 21, 1880

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs that White Thunder would like his sister-in-law as his second wife, but she is not interested. She is currently a student at the Carlisle Indian School, but there are reports of her mother dying. Before she leaves the school to be with her mother, she'd like to know if she…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Return Home of Initial Delegation of Rosebud and Pine Ridge Students
May 17, 1882

Richard Henry Pratt writes that the initial delegation of students from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies terms of enrollment are set to expire and requests authorization for funds to return them. Pratt notes that many of the students wish to remain but that their parents desire them to return home. He writes that many of the older students…

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Terms of Enrollment Set to Expire for Initial Delegations
May 17, 1882

Richard Henry Pratt writes that the terms of enrollment are up for students from the Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency,  the Kiowa, Comanche, and Wichita Agency, the Sisseton Agency, the Pawnee Agency, the Ponca Agency, and the Green Bay Agency. 

Pratt notes that half of the students whose terms are set to expire desire to remain at…

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Students to be Returned Home in 1883
March 26, 1883

Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…

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Pratt Seeks Instructions in the Case of Benjamin M. Thomas
June 4, 1887

Richard Henry Pratt requests instructions in the case of Benjamin M. Thomas who desires to remain at Carlisle to learn the printing trade. However, the Governor of the Pueblo village where his father is from has requested his return on his father's behalf. Thomas has said he has written his father but has not heard back.

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Request to Encourage San Carlos Apache Students to Remain at Carlisle
May 30, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt reports that 35 San Carlos Apache students are eligible to return to their homes due to the expiration of their terms. Six of the students have elected to remain an additional year but Pratt notes that many more should remain and likely would with the encouragement from the agent and their friends.

Pratt requests a…

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Pratt Responds to Requests to Return Helen Patterson and Ophelia King
May 15, 1894 - June 13, 1894

Richard Henry Pratt responds to requests to return Helen Patterson and Ophelia King to their homes. Pratt includes comments from King's sister Louisa as well as the Patterson's mother in arguing for keeping the students at Carlisle.

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Pratt Informs Office of Returning Apache Students
November 7, 1895

Richard Henry Pratt provides Daniel M. Browning of the decisions of the Apache students at the Carlisle Indian School relative to returning to their homes or staying at Carlisle.

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Pratt Responds to Request to Return Alice and Sophia American Horse
June 6, 1898

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request to return Alice and Sophia American Horse.

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Request to Retain Daniel Eagle as Student
June 21, 1900

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to retain Daniel Eagle as a student even though he is 24 years old and so above the age limit. Pratt shares that Eagle wishes to forward his education and attend the local commercial college when he is qualified for it. 

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Letters/Correspondence
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Pratt Writes to William Patterson Regarding His Daughter Cora
January 3, 1902

Richard Henry Pratt informs William Patterson that his daughter Cora Patterson is set to remain at the Carlisle Indian School for her full time despite his actions to have her returned.

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Continued Enrollment of Albert Exendine
January 28 - February 9, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding the dropping of Albert Exendine from the rolls of the Carlisle Indian School. Exendine asked to be kept on the rolls until he completed his present term at Dickinson College Preparatory School (Conway Hall). Exendine's request was accepted.

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Request of John Farr to Remain at Carlisle
June 15 - July 21, 1911

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John B. Farr to remain at the Carlisle Indian School rather than being sent home for living near a public school. Farr desired to take a mathematics course at Conway Hall after studying at the office of an architect in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Farr hoped to further study…

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Request to Retain Lucy Decora at Carlisle
November 27 - December 7, 1916

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Mrs. Frank Beaver to keep her daughter Lucy Decora at Carlisle instead of transferring her back to the Genoa Indian School. Decora was transferred to Genoa in order for her to complete her term of enrollment at Genoa.

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