These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Peirce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Peirce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations, focused on industrial curricula and student…
Student Illness
January 23, 1912 - March 6, 1912
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 9 - June 10, 1912
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of John Tiokasin.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 29 - June 10, 1912
This document contains correspondence notifying the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the death of James Pawnee Leggins. The correspondence also mentions the continued illness of two other students, Louise Bluesky and James Catfish, with tuberculosis.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 11-12, 1912
This document contains correspondence concerning Carrie Dunbar's case of appendicitis.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 16, 1912
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Carrie Dunbar.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 8-10, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Mollie Mantell.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 26 - June 12, 1913
These materials include correspondence regarding Cecelia Harto's health, as well as complaints about food. Harto was released to return home following a request by her grandfather, Antoine Denomie.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 1-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Antoine Petite.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Frank Peshlakie.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 11-14, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Josephine Warren.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 30, 1913
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Henry Buffalo.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 1, 1913 - May 1, 1914
These materials include legal documents and correspondence regarding charges filed against Superintendent Moses Friedman after an inspection and investigation of the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the documents are the official charges against Friedman, his answers to those charges, correspondence regarding the charges, and the…
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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1914 Congressional Investigation, History of the Carlisle Indian School, Discipline - General, School Farms - Selling Produce, Industrial Training - General, Student Illness, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, Athletic Program Administration, Fire Prevention, Student Living Conditions, Food and Dining
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 6, 1914
The typed transcript of Jeanette Pappin's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Pappin was a student at Carlisle. In this document she is referred to as Jeannette Patten.
Pappin discusses the harsh demeanour of the Matron Anna Ridenour and friction between the students and Superintendent Friedman…
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Legal and Government Documents
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
February 7, 1914
The typed transcript of Dr. A. R. Allen's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Allen had just been replaced as the school physician, having worked at the school from 1910 to the end of 1913.
In his testimony Allen recounts the hospital facilities, common health problems, and his efforts to…
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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 2, 1914
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Oscar Derrisaw.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 4-22, 1914
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that The Report of the Joint Congressional Investigating Committee found that a "large percentage" of the student body have trachoma. Lipps requests that the Commissioner sends one of his special trachoma physicians to the school.
Second Assistant…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 26, 1914
This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Sarah Parkhurst. This includes a medical bill.
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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 23, 1914 - December 24, 1914
This material includes correspondence concerning an incident between Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps and Doctor Walter Rendtorff about an operation on student Henry Tomah (spelled here as Henry Tomau). Dr. Rendtorff desired to either send Tomau to a Philadelphia hospital or request the help of Dr. Deaver from town for an appendectomy, and…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 4, 1914 - January 23, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he thinks he may have developed a cure for tuberculosis, which he has used on David Belin and two others. He requests to give it a trial at the Fort Lapwai and Toledo sanitariums.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt tells Rendtorff…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 20, 1915 - April 14, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the circumstances surrounding the return home of Newton Robinson to the Omaha Reservation.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding Carlisle's policy regarding the treatment and discharge of students who contract a venereal disease while enrolled at the school.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 26 - November 2, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Katie Cochran.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 31 - February 7, 1916
This document contains correspondence concerning the death of Addie Foster.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 7- December 31, 1916
These materials include correspondence, ledger pages, inspection reports, and government forms regarding multiple health topics connected to the Carlisle Indian School. Included is an Inspection Report of H. B. Peairs for February 1916, Physician's Semiannual Reports for the first and second halves of 1916, statistical reports of diseases for…
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Ledgers, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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Student Illness, Inspection of the School, Discipline - General, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, Athletic Program Administration, School Library, Student Nursing Training, Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Animals and Livestock, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Student Living Conditions
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 18, 1916
This document contains a letter concerning the death of Charles Duncan.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration