Requests From the Department to Send Students Home

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Request for Funds for Joseph Hamilton to Travel to Bancroft, Nebraska
June 30, 1886

Richard Henry Pratt requests transportation to send Joseph Hamilton, a member of the Omaha Nation, from Carlisle to Bancroft, Nebraska.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for the Return of Sallie Face
February 13, 1894

Charles G. Penney, Acting U. S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, requests the return from the Carlisle Indian School of Sallie Face (here Sally Face) from the Carlisle Indian School.

Daniel G. Browning forwards copy of the letter to Richard Henry Pratt with a directive to transfer Face to her home on the Pine Ridge Reservation.…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
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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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Hitchcock Orders Return of Children of Mrs. J. F. Hoover
November 15, 1900

E. A. Hitchcock, Secretary of the Interior, instructs the W. A. Jones to have Richard Henry Pratt return the children of Mrs. J. F. Hoover from the Carlisle Indian School.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Interior Secretary Orders Return of Nora and Geneva Jamison
August 12, 1901

Thomas Ryan, Acting Secretary of the Interior, orders the Office of Indian Affairs to instruct Richard Henry Pratt to return Nora and Geneva Jamison to their home in the middle of September.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Requests Delay in Returning Students with One Eighth Indian Blood
May 16, 1902

Richard Henry Pratt requests to delay implementing the order to return students with one eighth or less Indian blood until July due to limited finances and to allow three students to finish their course of enrollment.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Pratt Requests Exemption for Oscar Davis to Remain at Carlisle
May 23, 1902

Richard Henry Pratt requests to keep Oscar Davis through February in order to allow him to graduate despite being covered by the discharge order of the Office of Indian Affairs.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Mercer Informs Office of James Maney Return to his Home
June 5, 1906

William A. Mercer informs the Office of Indian Affairs that James Maney has left the Carlisle Indian School for his home in Cherokee, North Carolina.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Enrollment of the Pennell Children at Carlisle
September 23 - November 29, 1910

These materials include an issue of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 7, No. 3) as well as correspondence regarding the enrollment of the Pennell children at the Carlisle Indian School. Hebert H. Fiske, the Superintendent of the Haskell Institute, noted that the Pennell children were enrolled at Carlisle despite having been sent home from…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration