Requests From Tribal Leaders to Send Students Home

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Oneida Sachems and Councilors Request Return of Students from Carlisle
December 11, 1885 - January 15, 1886

Oneida Sachems and Councilors request the return of various students currently at Carlisle due to lack of full consideration. Richard Henry Pratt notes that the request should be rejected as there is little discontent among the students aside from routine and some work requirements. He states that some parents requested additional children to…

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Requests Telegram Regarding Sending Apache Students Home as Interpreters
March 22, 1888

Richard Henry Pratt requests a telegram regarding a promise that the President and Secretary gave to a group of visiting Apache chiefs to send home two students at the Carlisle Indian School with them to serve as interpreters. Pratt recommends that the telegram say that the students will be sent at a future date.

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Request to Return Mark Penoi Home
January 28, 1889

Richard Henry Pratt requests to return Mark Penoi to his home in Laguna, New Mexico due to the death of his parents. Pratt states that officials from Laguna have requested his return in order to look over his family's property and the children who depend on it.

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Correspondence Related to Claims from New York Students About Lack of Food
November 26, 1892 - December 13, 1892

Correspondence related to claims from parents on the Cattaraugus Reservation of children at the Carlisle Indian School related to the return of their children. A. W. Ferrin, U.S. Indian Agent for New York Indians, relative to their claims from their children that they do not receive enough food to eat. Richard Henry Pratt suggests that these…

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Petition of Cattaraugus Reservation Requesting Return of Children
April 21, 1893 - May 1, 1893

A. W. Ferrin forwards petition of the Cattaraugus Reservation requesting the return of certain pupils from the Carlisle Indian School. The petition claims that parents were misinformed and that some students were taken without consent, parents are unhappy with the treatment of their children, that students are not getting enough academic…

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A. W. Ferrin Provides Update on New York Requests to Return Students
May 8, 1893

A. W. Ferrin provides an update on the feelings of the New York Indians regarding their children at the Carlisle Indian School. Ferrin states that he has had some discussions with various members of the Seneca Nation and that only a few are dissatisfied with having their children at Carlisle. Further an effort was made at the last Seneca…

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Nippe Requests Commissioner to Ignore Cattaraugus Petition
May 8, 1893

M. F. Nippe, Missionary, writes to Daniel M. Browning asking him to ignore the petition of the Cattaraugus Reservation. Nippe notes that the claims are the result of misstatements and falsehoods.

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David Patterson Requests Office Act on Petition for Return of Students
May 25, 1893

David Patterson requests that Daniel M. Browning act on the petition forwarded to him by A. W. Ferrin requesting the return of children from New York at the Carlisle Indian School.

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Request to Send Glennie Pierce Home
March 13, 1899

Elmer Huff informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Glennie Pierce has been located and requests that Richard Henry Pratt have him released from the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania poor house and returned home.

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Pratt Responds to Request to Send Glennie Pierce Home
March 18, 1899

Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request of Elmer Huff to send Glennie Pierce home.

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Request for Return Home of Hopi Students
May 20, 1911 - June 17, 1911

These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into on the return of the Hopi students enrolled at Carlisle in 1907. Ta wa hong yio ma was informed that the students were enrolled for five year terms and their periods of enrollment had not yet expired.

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