An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ending 1880, containing the first annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses the school's opening, recruitment of students, educational and industrial curricula, and overall health. Also included…
School Band
1880
Format:
Book
Topics:
Annual Reports, Building Repairs and Expansions, Industrial Training - General, Discipline - Student Court Process, Enrollment Statistics, Prisoners from Ft. Marion (1875-1878), School Curriculum, Student Deaths, School Newspapers, Students on Outings, County and State Fairs, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Industrial Program Statistics, School Band, Military-Style Training and Organization
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
January 26, 1895
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter apprarently asking if any of the current Carlisle School band members would be suitable as a band leader elsewhere. Pratt notes that he has a number of students who would make good band leaders but none would be good teachers. He further notes that the band members all seem…
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
March 29, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests to turn over the Carlise Indian School Band instruments to the government accounting in order to reimburse the charity funds. Pratt also details the history of how he acquired instruments for the band.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 10, 1901
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase new band uniforms for the upcoming visit to the Buffalo Exposition. Pratt notes that the uniform bid was won from Horstmann Bros. and will include the word Carlisle embroidered on the front.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
September 17, 1906
William A. Mercer recommends Roger Venne for the position of disciplinarian at the Fort Apache school, and adds that he would also be valuable as a band leader.
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 27 - July 23, 1909
This document contains correspondence concerning a complaint made by bandmaster James Wheelock that students from the school band were improperly disciplined by being locked in the guard house. The complaint, which made headlines in national newspapers including The Outlook, was investigated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.…
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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 13, 1910 - November 3, 1910
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that if he has any money derived from school entertainment or band concerts, he has to include it in the Miscellaneous Receipts, Class IV in his first quarter account.
Acting Chief of the Finance Division orders…
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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
February 5, 1914
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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Legal and Government Documents
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration