Student Sexual Activities

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Correspondence Regarding Allegations towards the Outing System
July 11, 1892 - August 17, 1892

Correspondence from Daniel Dorchester, the Superintendent of Indian Schools, and Richard Henry Pratt to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding allegations from Pratt that Dorchester was set to attack the Carlisle outing system on the grounds that thirteen students had become pregnant. Pratt calls the allegation false and that only one…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
First page of typed transcript of testimony
February 7, 1914

The typed transcript of Bertha Canfield's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Canfield oversaw the sewing room at the school.

In her testimony Canfield critiques the administration of Superintendent Friedman on the basis that he does not take any interest in the well-being or morality of the…

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Legal and Government Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
Article Regarding Student Discipline and Town Interactions
May 3-12, 1915

These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who reportedly visited the east end of the town for parties with local residents. Superintendent Lipps…

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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
Male Students Drinking and Spending Time with Carlisle Women
May 12, 1915

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response. 

In his reply Lipps disputes some of the article's specific charges but says in general it is accurate. He also describes how difficult it has been…

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