Oneida

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Dennison Wheelock Letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs
January 9, 1886

Oneida student Dennison Wheelock writes to John D. C. Atkins, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, about his desire to return home. He says that he would prefer to attend a school for white students there rather than remain at Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Descriptive Statement of Pupils Discharged to Green Bay Agency, 1887
April 27-30, 1887

These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding the discharge of sisters Esther and Louisa Metoxen from the Carlisle Indian School and their transfer to their home in the Green Bay Agency of Wisconsin.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Descriptive Statement of Pupils Discharged to Multiple Agencies, 1887
June 27-28, 1887

These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding three students discharged from the Carlisle Indian School and transferred back to their homes at the Green Bay, Rosebud, and Pine Ridge Agencies.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
Former Student Survey Responses, 1890 (Part 4 of 5)
May 31 - July 11, 1890

A series of twenty-three letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Former Student Survey Responses, 1890 (Part 2 of 5)
June 4-13, 1890

A series of fifteen letters written to Captain Richard H. Pratt in response to a questionnaire sent to former students. The accompanying questionnaire forms are not included.

 

Transcripts follow each handwritten letter.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Oneida Agency, 1894
September 27, 1894

These materials include a descriptive statement of pupils for 19 individuals sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Oneida Agency in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
1897 Commencement Program
March 11, 1897

The commencement program for the Eighteenth Anniversary and Ninth Graduating Exercises of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania.  The program includes a schedule of events as well as a photograph of the graduating class of 1897.

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Memorabilia and Ephemera
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Descriptive Statement of Pupils from Wittenberg Indian Industrial School, 1897
October 18, 1897

These materials include a descriptive statement of pupils for two individuals, George Welch and Abbie Doxtator, sent to the Carlisle Indian School from the Wittenberg Indian Industrial School in Wittenberg, Wisconsin. These individuals were likely transferred to Carlisle after attending Wittenberg, but this is unclear from the records.

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Reports
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
1908 Commencement Program
April 2, 1908

This program was distributed for the 1908 Commencement Exercises, which took place on Thursday, April 2nd. Inside features a portrait of Moses Friedman, the Superintendent, Francis E. Leupp, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Charles H. Dickson, the Supervisor-in Charge, as well as a portrait of the Class of 1908. Included is a full schedule…

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Memorabilia and Ephemera
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Return of Richmond Martin and Discontinuance of Enrollment of Pupils from New York State
May 12, 1908 - May 12, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding the return home of Richmond Martin to New York. The documents also discuss in detail new Bureau of Indian Affairs policies related to the discontinued enrollment of pupils from New York State as well as pupils of a young age.

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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Personnel File of Wallace Denny, Assistant Disciplinarian
June 11, 1910 - September 2, 1918

Personnel file of Wallace Denny, who served as Assistant Disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School from sometime before 1910 until 1918. Denny was a member of Carlisle's class of 1906, and was married to Nellie Robertson Denny.

The file contains quarterly employee reports, letters of resignation, complaints from students, a photograph…

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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Photographs, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
1917 Commencement Program, The Continental Congress
May 23, 1917

This program was distributed for a performance by the students as part of the Commencement Exercises for 1917. The play, "The Continental Congress," is taken from McBrien's "America First," and the school borrowed the costumes for the performance. It surrounds the formation of the first Continental Congress and the Declaration of Independence…

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Memorabilia and Ephemera
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Herman Kelly Competency Evaluation
June 27, 1917 - June 13, 1919

This material includes correspondence concerning Herman Kelly. This includes letters, a photograph, and his memorandum. 

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Letters/Correspondence, Photographs
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National Archives and Records Administration
Margaret House File (Not a Student)
August 27, - September 15, 1917

File of Margaret House, a member of the Oneida Nation, who entered the school on August 27, 1917, and departed on June 8, 1918. This file includes information cards, an application for enrollment, and correspondence.

House was not a student attending classes at the school due to her young age. Instead, she attended the local public…

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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Diploma of Sadie Metoxen
June 6, 1918

Sadie Metoxen received this diploma (course in Home Economics) during the commencement ceremonies held at the Carlisle Indian School on June 6, 1918.

This diploma was donated by the Jerry Lappin family in 2018.

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Memorabilia and Ephemera
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections