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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August 11, 1880
Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz informs Assistant Secretary of the Interior A. Bell that, if Spotted Tail wants to return his children to the Carlisle Indian School, he has to do it at his own expense. Schurz continues on to write about…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Need for Spotted Tail to Pay for Transportation to Return his Children to Carlisle210.94 KB
August 13, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $1,000 on material for clothing and its manufacture for students.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Uniforms and Clothing
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds to Manufacture Clothing149.27 KB
August 13, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for the school's contingent expenses in the current quarter, which he estimates to be $1,280.
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 Funds for Contingent Expenses, First Quarter 1880232.68 KB
August 13, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $2,125 on beef and flour for students.
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 79, "…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Beef and Flour149.73 KB
August 14, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to purchase fruits, butter, eggs, milk, and berries for students' health during the 1881 fiscal year.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Food for Student Health, 1880-1881 Fiscal Year157.56 KB
August 17, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to send four sick students home to Indian Territory and funding for their escort, B. S. Reynolds. The four students, who have all been examined by the school physician and Office of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Four Sick Students Home256.82 KB
August 18, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt states that Bishop Huntington of New York is teaching four former Florida prisoners but would like to send two to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to grant Huntington's request.
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Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Teach Two former Florida Prisoners162.38 KB
August 18, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Sisseton Sioux Chief Gabriel Renville has arrived at the Carlisle Indian School to return the body of his son, John, who died of typhus, home to be buried. Pratt is granting…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of John and Nancy Renville159.57 KB
August 21, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he is sending Pine Ridge Sioux students Henry Thigh, Nathan, and Andrew home, escorted by Reverend Robinson, immediately because their health is so poor that they may die at the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Three Sick Sioux Students220.58 KB
August 23, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form amounting to $2,220 for areas covering shops, supplies, repairs, and traveling expenses.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Third Quarter 1880910.5 KB
August 24, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs approve a two-week long leave of absence.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Richard Henry Pratt's Application for Leave of Absence151.64 KB
August 27, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to spend $90 on the purchase of butter, milk, eggs, and fruit for sick students and the "general health of the school."
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase Special Food Supplies for Sick Students154.37 KB
August 28, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt calls attention to his request for $1,000 to purchase supplies to manufacture clothing.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Attention Called to Request for Funds to Manufacture Clothing149.19 KB
August 28, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests to add a $1,980 purchase of four hundred tons of coal to his "special" estimate of funds.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Heating Supplies
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Purchase 400 Tons of Coal143.82 KB
September 3, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a series of exceptions made to his Returns.
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 79, "…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Answers to Exceptions to Returns, September 1880320.31 KB
September 4, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs school physician Dr. J. S. Bender that he will be fired at the end of the month unless he quits sooner. Pratt provides multiple reasons for his decision, including that almost every student sent to the school hospital…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Decision to Fire School Physician Dr. J. S. Bender466.57 KB
September 4, 1880
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs O. Marble asks that Lieutenant Richard H. Pratt's request for a 14 day leave of absence be granted.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Leave of Absence Request for Richard H. Pratt153.22 KB
September 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he needs assistance in his office and requests that Alice M. Robertson of the Tallahassee Mission School be transferred to the Carlisle Indian School to help Pratt and his clerk…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Requests to Hire Help for Pratt's Office and Clerk247.29 KB
September 7, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt transmits his Report of Irregular Employees for July 1880.
Note: The report itself was missing from the microfilm reels at the National Archives.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, July 1880137.5 KB
September 7, 1880
Dr. J. S. Bender responds to Richard Henry Pratt's letter relieving him of his duties as school physician. In his response, Bender explains and defends himself against the claims that Pratt makes about him. Pratt forwards Bender's letter to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Physician's Rebuttal to Pratt's Claims Against Him558.07 KB
September 8, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. M. Marble for permission to accompany a party to Philadelphia and Washington, D. C. on business related to the Carlisle Indian School.
Note: This item was copied from U.S.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Visit Philadelphia and Washington, D. C.105.24 KB
September 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt transmits his Report of Irregular Employees for August 1880.
Note: The report itself was missing from the microfilm reels at the National Archives.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, August 1880147 KB
September 9, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt writes to Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. M. Marble regarding three former Florida prisoners that should be returned home, escorted by Agent Miles. The first is going to die soon because of an accident suffered while…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Three Former Florida Prisoners Home349.14 KB
September 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he's firing Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. J. S. Bender at the end of the month.
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Confirmation of the Dismissal of School Physician Dr. J. S. Bender158.82 KB
September 15, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt requests $800 from the Commissioner of Affairs to supplement funds he has raised from donors in order to install a heating apparatus in the boys quarters. Pratt states that last winter, the male students were very cold at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds to Install a new Heating System in the Boys' Quarters333.09 KB