The Documents section features digitized copies of documents relating to the history of the school. These documents include correspondence, graduation pamphlets, and other forms of ephemera, and have been digitized by Digital Resource Center staff. Today, these documents are preserved in a number of locations, including the Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections as well as private collections.
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May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt describes the problems he's having with receiving rubber hose, hose pipes, and one hose carriage from September 1879's estimate for supplies.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Issues with Receiving Hose, Pipes, and a Carriage224.71 KB
May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase food for students instead of using the government-issued rations. Pratt requests to spend up to 17.5¢ per student per day and to be able to choose food for the students so that they can receive…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt's Request to Select Food for the School227.62 KB
May 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to pay for Etahdleuh's traveling expenses to visit a hospital in Syracuse, New York. Pratt notes that Etahdleuh is suffering from eye and throat problems.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Etahdleuh to New York Hospital for Eye and Throat Issues156.55 KB
May 12, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return to Carlisle from Washington, D.C.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt's Request for Authority to Return to Carlisle from Washington, D.C.141.69 KB
May 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a monthly report of irregular employees for April 1880 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
Note: The report itself was missing from the microfilm reels at the National Archives.
Note: This item was…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, April 1880135.44 KB
May 18, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $80 to transport students to the South Mountain to visit the iron works and paper mills and to have a picnic. Pratt would like to arrange this excursion when the Dakota chiefs and families are visiting.
…Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Visit Factories with Students and Dakota Families146.4 KB
May 24, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to present samples of the Carlisle Indian School's manufactured goods at the letting of contracts in New York.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Present Industrial Samples in New York City151.12 KB
May 25, 1880 - July 28, 1880
George W. Hendry informs Richard Henry Pratt that he knows a 21 year old man, who's half Indian and half Black, who is "dignified" and can speak English. He asks Pratt to send him pictures of Indian students and schools. Pratt forwards Hendry's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Photographs to a Half-Indian, Half-Black Young Man307.36 KB
June 2, 1880 - June 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt encloses a copy of a letter from B. F. Beveridge to Charles Tackett about how to ensure that the Indian chiefs while visiting Washington D.C. stay at the Washington House (Beveridge's establishment). In his cover letter, Pratt…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Intention to Discharge Charles Tackett244.54 KB
June 2, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt sends a telegram to Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge regarding 25 Hampton Institute students going north for the summer.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234),…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students on Outings
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan for Hampton Institute Students to Go North for the Summer159.96 KB
June 2, 1880
J. S. Bender informs Richard Henry Pratt that he believes six to eight students should be returned to their homes because they have "incurable" conditions and will likely "die young." Pratt encloses and endorses Bender's requests to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Physician's Belief that Eight Students Should be Sent Home due to Poor Health324.24 KB
June 3, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for the second quarter of 1880 amounting to $1,100.80 for areas covering traveling expenses, supplies, contingencies, and clothing.
Note: This item was copied from U.S.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1880821.45 KB
June 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that the Cheyenne & Arapaho Agent John D. Miles would like to send 25 students from his agency to the Carlisle Indian School. Miles added that he'd like several…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll 25 Cheyenne and Arapaho Students225.21 KB
June 11, 1880
Richard H. Pratt transmits to Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge his Return of Medical Property form for the first quarter of 1880.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Medical Supplies and Materials
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Medical Property, First Quarter 1880146.44 KB
June 14, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge's authority to spend $250 to purchase and manufacture clothing for the current quarter.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Materials to Manufacture Clothing158.08 KB
June 14, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to purchase 20 standard tents and 2 hospital tents. Pratt wants the tents because he intends to form two detachments of boys and one detachment of girls and send them to camp in the mountains near the school for a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Summer Camps
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Tents for Summer Camp240.86 KB
June 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt forwards two separate agreements to rent two plots of land amounting to 18 acres near the Carlisle Indian School for agricultural purposes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge for his approval.
Note: This…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Agreements to Rent 18 Acres of Land for School Farm234.21 KB
June 15, 1880 - July 16, 1880
Acting Secretary of the Interior A. Bell encloses to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs agreements allowing Richard Henry Pratt to rent 10 acres of land from Annie and Laura Alexander and allowing Pratt to rent 8 acres of land from Benjamin Sanno…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
View Document: Contracts to Rent 18 Acres of Land for the School Farm1.06 MB
June 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt provides a list to the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affair of the students to be returned home at the request of Sioux chiefs
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: List of Sioux Students to be Returned103.02 KB
June 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that he would like students to have outings on farms located in Berkshire and Hampshire counties in Massachusetts. According to Pratt's plan, the Bureau of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Plan for Outing System in Massachusetts231.6 KB
June 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that he hired Zonie McKenzie to serve as an interpreter and assistant matron when he brought Sioux students to the Carlisle Indian School in 1879. Pratt notes that he paid her a monthly…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Matrons
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay Assistant Matron Zonie McKenzie's Claim235.11 KB
June 18, 1880 - August 4, 1880
Estimate of funds for the third quarter of 1880 amounting to $8,805 for areas covering subsistence, employee pay, clothing, supplies, and contingencies. Two explanatory cover letters are attached.
Note: This item was copied from U.S.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Estimate of Funds, Third Quarter 1880946.99 KB
June 19, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests returning party should remain at the Carlisle Indian School until the Sioux chiefs arrive. Pratt notes this will prolong their railroad tickets until the June 23rd.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Allow a Party to Stay at School until Chiefs Arrive100.86 KB
June 20, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt writes to Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. J. Brooks regarding Brooks' decision to not allow Pratt to purchase tents or take his students to camp in the mountains over the summer. Pratt tells Brooks that he had already…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Commissioner to Reconsider Declining the Purchase of Tents322.66 KB
June 21, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs that White Thunder would like his sister-in-law as his second wife, but she is not interested. She is currently a student at the Carlisle Indian School, but there are reports…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: White Thunder's Desire to Marry his Sister-In-Law, a Student at the School106.4 KB