J. L. Thomas writes to Hiram Price, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, regarding a request from the Onondaga Nation to have their children returned from the Carlisle Indian School. Thomas references the Onondaga Chief Daniel La Fort's visit to Washington where he secured a promise to have the children returned home but has had no word since.
Onondaga
March 3, 1884
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 23 - October 11, 1886
Correspondence regarding the enrollment of Onondaga students at the Carlisle Indian School between John A. Bowman, Alfred John Standing, Bishop Huntington, and Richard Henry Pratt. Pratt concludes the correspondence by forwarding everything to the Office of Indian Affairs requesting that they allow the students to enroll at Carlisle despite…
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October 16, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt refers to earlier letter and asks if he can send a favorable reply to Bishop Huntington's agent for enrolling Onondaga children at the Carlisle Indian School.
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November 24, 1887 - November 26, 1887
J. L. Thomas seeks to have his son enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Richard Henry Pratt forwarded his letter to the Office of Indian Affairs noting that Thomas will pay his transportation to the school and that with Office approval he would be willing to enroll him.
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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
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
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
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National Archives and Records Administration
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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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections