Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from J. H. Mateer, Superintendent of the Sisseton Indian Industrial Boarding School regarding three girls who had requested to be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Mateer claims that the students now desire to wait until they receive their extra payment from the Government.
Student Transfers
Transfers between schools.
June 15-27, 1891
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Letters/Correspondence
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July 20, 1891
Elmore Chase recommends transferring two Apache students at his school to the Carlisle Indian School due to the fact that the Santa Fe School is going to draw entirely from female students from local Pueblo villages.
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November 20, 1891 - November 23, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Thomas J. Morgan regarding accepting students from Arizona. Pratt states that he would not hesitate to accept pupils during the winter. In addition he discusses delaying their enrollment to the spring when he can send current pupils on outing to limit the burden of his appropriation which is nearly…
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Letters/Correspondence
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December 1891
Richard Henry Pratt provides a report responding to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs on the needs of the Carlisle Indian School. Included are discussions on the need for more land, additional educational needs, and industrial training including the limitations of the industrial instruction received at Carlisle.
Pratt also…
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Reports
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Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Land Transactions, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Indian School System, Factors Affecting Student Recruitment, Discipline - Punishment, Printing Department, Student Living Conditions, School Library, Student Transfers, World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Students Running Away, School Employees - Housing, School Utilities, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Books Used at School, School Farms - Productivity, Medical Examinations of Potential Students, Opposition to Carlisle from Agency Clergy, Student Illness, Music Instruction, Supplies – Requests and Fulfillment, Recordkeeping at the School, Discipline - Student Court Process
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February 6, 1892 - Feburary 13, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to transfer Ambrose Guruz, a member of the Apache Nation, to the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind. Pratt provides a background of Guruz's time at Carlisle and notes that if the Government is willing to pay his tuition he will likely be able to learn a trade that will enable him to…
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February 11, 1892
Benjamin S. Coppock, Superintendent of the Chilocco Industrial School, forwards a request to transfer Delos Lone Wolf, Ned Brace, and James Ahatone to the Carlisle Indian School.
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February 24, 1892
Edward E. Allen, Principal of the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, requests voucher blanks for a student being transferred from the Carlisle Indian School.
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April 16, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter by informing them that Ambrose Guruz went to the Pennsylvania Institute for the Instruction of the Blind at Philadelphia on March 4, 1892.
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April 21, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt responds to requests to return Abram Hill by noting that Hill came to Carlisle from Martinsburg and has remained at Carlisle by his own choice. Pratt states that Hill is currently attending school in Newtown, Pennsylvania and has just expressed a desire to return with the home going party in June or July.
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June 20, 1892
T. S. Ansley forwards list of children for transfer from the Flambeau reservation and La Pointe Agency. Ansley notes that the students have no education with two exceptions but are strong and healthy looking. The preferred school is Carlisle due to the first student on the list naming it with the others following his lead.
The…
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July 20, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from S. S. Burleson requesting the return of William and Sarah Archiquette at the request of their mother. Pratt notes that he would like the statements in the letter verified as he includes two enclosures including a letter from William showing that he is content on his outing.
In addition…
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Letters/Correspondence
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November 8, 1892
David S. Keck, Supervisor of Education, reports the transfer of two students, David McIntosh and Norman Cassadore, from the San Carlos Reservation to the Carlisle Indian School.
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December 28, 1892
James Williams requests the return of his daughter Julia Williams from the Carlisle Indian School and to finish her term of enrollment at the Mt. Pleasant Government school. In addition, he requests that his other daughter be allowed to enroll at Mt. Pleasant.
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Letters/Correspondence
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January 7, 1893
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request of James Williams for the transfer of his daughters, Sarah and Julia, to the Mt. Pleasant School. Pratt notes that the authorization on the part of the Office of Indian Affairs in granting this request will cause a large amount of trouble for Carlisle and that he might as well transfer all Chippewa…
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Letters/Correspondence
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February 25 - April 17, 1893
William T. Leake, Supervisor of Education, transmits a list of students as well as physician's report of six students for transfer from the Fort Lapwai Industrial School to the Carlisle Indian School.
A note on the correspondence page says: NO Too far.
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August 14, 1893
S. M. Cart, Superintendent of the Sante Fe School, requests authority to transfer three students from his school to the Carlisle Indian School.
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February 10, 1894
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Carlisle Indian School can take care of a large number of students displaced by the fire at the Pine Ridge Agency Boarding School.
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March 1-9, 1894
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from Stella M. Cannon, teacher at the Chemawa Indian School, requesting that two students be enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he can arrange the transfer of the two students in order to have them continue their education at a higher level.
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August 25, 1894
W. N. Hailmann, Superintendent of Indian Schools, recommends accepting the report of John E. Youngblood of the Neah Bay School to transfer students either to Carlisle or Chemawa.
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August 27, 1894
Alex Connolly requests the transfer of his daughter Lettie from the Carlisle Indian School to the Lincoln Institute.
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September 13, 1894
Richard Henry Pratt responds to the request to transfer Lettie Connolly to the Lincoln Institute.
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October 6, 1894 - October 9, 1894
Thomas Jones replies to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the transfer of certain pupils to various Indian Schools. Jones also encloses a postcard from Joseph Williams requesting a transfer from Chilocco to the Santa Fe Indian School.
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October 8, 1894
Robert Hamilton informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Richard Henry Pratt has authorized him to take a party of students from the Fort Shaw Indian School in Montana to the Carlisle Indian School and seeks the permission of the Department.
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October 26, 1894
W. H. Winslow, Superintendent of the Fort Shaw Indian School, responds to an Office of Indian School letter regarding Robert Hamilton's request to transfer students from Fort Shaw to Carlisle.
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February 9-19, 1895
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from H. B. Peairs, Acting Superintendent of the Haskell Institute, informing him that Sarah Whitedeer no longer consents to the transfer to Carlisle. Pratt requests that W. N. Hailmann order the transfer anyway due to prior instances of Haskell ordering Carlisle students to be transferred.
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