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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April 4, 1909
These materials include a letter from Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert Valentine to Carlisle's Superintendent, Moses Friedman, proposing a change to how employment appointments are made for the Carlisle Indian School. Valentine…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Change Appointment Procedures299.4 KB
April 4, 1909
Acting Commissioner R. G. Valentine informs Superintendent Moses Friedman that they are reorganizing the Education Division of the Office, so the organizations dealing with appointments for schools and agencies have now been combined into one…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Reorganization of the Appointment Process190.55 KB
April 5-15, 1909
This document contains correspondence concerning James Henry. The student had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and was returned to his home in Sweet Water, Idaho.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of James Henry183.08 KB
April 8, 1909 - April 9, 1909
First Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior Frank Pierce grants the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the authority to abolish a teacher position at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Abolition of Teacher Position155.17 KB
April 9, 1909 - May 11, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding appropriations for the board of students attending the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Board for Students Attending Philadelphia Institute of Art384.14 KB
April 10-17, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to return Noble Thompson to his home in Laguna, New Mexico.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Noble Thompson160.23 KB
April 23, 1909 - July 7, 1914
This folder includes documents related to August Kensler's employment in the Indian Service. He worked at Carlisle as storekeeper and then quartermaster from December 1, 1892 until May 19, 1914 when he resigned.
At the beginning of…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: School Employees - Storekeeper
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: August Kensler Personnel Folder6.83 MB
April 26, 1909
These materials include a telegram from Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman informing the Bureau of Indian Affairs that he was leaving for a trip to the Walters Sanitarium in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. John Whitwell was left in charge of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Leave of Absence for Sanitarium Trip for Moses Friedman125.76 KB
May 3, 1909 - May 12, 1909
Chief of the Accounts Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that he can't send him the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" funds because that account is overdrawn. …
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Status of "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" Account273.23 KB
May 11 - July 21, 1909
Carlisle Gardener Reinholt H. Hoffman writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs because he was tasked with working as a temporary agricultural teacher but only received a gardener's salary. Superintendent Moses Friedman argues that Hoffman…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Dispute over Gardener's Salary1.34 MB
May 14 - June 29, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Sampson H. Renville to have his two daughters, Germaine and Fleeta, returned to their home in Peever, South Dakota from the Carlisle Indian School. Renville's request was granted after…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Renville Children3.47 MB
May 15, 1909
The Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs expresses his best wishes to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman's wife, who recently had an accident and fractured a bone. He also informs Friedman that he could potentially visit the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Commissioner of Indian Affairs' Best Wishes Regarding Mrs. Friedman's Accident94.26 KB
May 15, 1909
Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs that his trip to Washington DC must be postponed because Mrs. Friedman fractured her hip.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Postponement of Trip Due to Mrs. Friedman Injury116.28 KB
May 21 - 26, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return three Alaskan students to their homes from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Alaskan Students in May 1909161.18 KB
May 24 - June 22, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Clarence De Graff to end his enrollment at Carlisle early and return home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Clarence De Graff886.63 KB
May 26, 1909 - June 8, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Volney J. Ellis, Superintendent of the St. Regis Indian Schools, that the Carlisle Indian School was rejecting all pupils from the St. Regis Reservation. In response, Ellis was…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Denial of Enrollment of St. Regis New York Pupils244.64 KB
May 31 - June 14, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Louis Bear to return to his home before his term of enrollment had expired.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home from Louis Bear350.5 KB
June 2, 1909 - May 22, 1914
This folder contains documents related to Jennie Gaither's employment in the Indian Service. She worked in the Service from 1905 until approximately 1926. She worked as the matron at Carlisle from July of 1907 to January of 1913.
Documents…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: PDF One - Reports and Transfer8.91 MB, PDF Two - Complaint Against Nori4.31 MB, PDF Three - Ridenour File Material981.88 KB
June 2, 1909 - June 3, 1909
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs how soon re-deposits of the "Support Funds" and "Miscellaneous Funds" can be placed to his official credit.
Chief of the Accounts Division…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Process to Place "Support Funds" and "Miscellaneous Funds" to Friedman's Credit210.85 KB
June 8 - August 18, 1909
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Taquah Wolf to be sent home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home by Taquah Wolfe1.26 MB
June 14 - July 7, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Peter Cole to have his son returned home to Hogansburg, New York over the summer break.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request By Peter Cole431.05 KB
June 17, 1909
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to purchase six 30 inch Burt Glass Top ventilators for the school gymnasium. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine approves the expenditure and returns the request.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request to Purchase Ventilators for the School Gymnasium86.32 KB
June 21 - July 1, 1909
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the nurse's salary not be raised from $720 to $780 per year because "the work here is not arduous, there being a number of student apprentice nurses who render valuable assistance…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Disagreement about a Potential Nurse Raise857.11 KB
June 22 - July 8, 1909
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Albert Scott to his home Blue Lake, California from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Albert Scott138.39 KB
June 22-26, 1909
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he received the copies of the previous Commissioner Francis E. Leupp's resignation and will print and send back 100 copies.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Resignation of Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp169.54 KB