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 29 - June 10, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to tear down the smoke and bake house and the slaughter house, both of which are used for storage on the farm and no longer needed due to improvements to the dairy barn. Second…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Permission to Tear Down Smoke and Bake House and Slaughter House635.43 KB
May 29, 1911 - June 20, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by J. R. Frye to enroll in the Carlisle Indian School. Frye was attending the Henry Kendall College in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his request was denied due to his access to public schools.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by J. R. Frye222.68 KB
May 29, 1911 - June 19, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Robert J. Tahamont to remain at the Carlisle Indian School past his term of enrollment in order gain more experience in the carpenter trade by assisting the school in building in a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Remain at Carlisle by Robert Tahamont396.14 KB
June 10, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, PA., 1912" account for water. C. F. Hauke approves the request.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Utilities
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Approval and Receipt for Purchase of Water Supply for 1912 Fiscal Year554.6 KB
June 10-30, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $1,000 from the "Indian School, Transportation 1912" account to capture and return runaway students and deserters. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Funds to Capture and Return Runaway Students562.2 KB
June 11, 1911 - June 27, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $500 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1912" account for water supply, and C. F. Hauke approves the request. A carbon copy of the request and receipt are included as…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Utilities
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request and Receipt for Purchase of Water Supply for Fiscal Year 19121.4 MB
June 12 - November 17, 1911
Superintendent Moses Friedman requests authorization to spend $400 for fiscal year 1912 in order to pay the lease of the Henderson Tract, which is used for "pasture and other purposes." Several months later Friedman asks the Commissioner of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
View Document: Request to Approve Funds for Henderson Farm Lease291.33 KB
June 15 - July 21, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John B. Farr to remain at the Carlisle Indian School rather than being sent home for living near a public school. Farr desired to take a mathematics course at Conway Hall after…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of John Farr to Remain at Carlisle554.72 KB
June 21, 1911 - May 29, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Katie Ray, a member of the Catawba Nation, in the Carlisle Indian School. Ray's request was denied because the Catawba Nation had not recently received assistance in educating…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Katie Ray349.63 KB
June 24, 1911 - July 29, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the exclusion of Charles Geck from the Carlisle Indian School. Geck was released from the school as a result that he had access to public schools near his home in Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Exclusion of Charles Geck250.35 KB
June 26, 1911 - August 22, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Thomas Antiste that an employee of the Flathead School was attempting to force his daughter to enter the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint Made by Thomas Antiste849.02 KB
June 28, 1911 - August 5, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Mitchell Laughing to have his son John Laughing returned home from Carlisle. The request was denied on account of John's age and his stated desire to remain at the school on the outing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home for John Laughing415.4 KB
June 29 - July 3, 1911
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman forwards a contract with Carlisle Gas and Water Company for providing electric light for buildings, installing six arc lights for the school grounds, and providing all of the water supply for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contract with the Carlisle Gas and Water Company2.74 MB
June 29, 1911 - August 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the exclusion of Willard Comstock from the Carlisle Indian School due to his heritage and family's wealth.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Exclusion of Willard Comstock353.34 KB
June 30, 1911
The Annual Report, U.S. Indian School, Carlisle, PA , for the year ending June 30, 1911, by M. Friedman, Superintendent, Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The annual report contains statistical information related to the school's enrollment,…
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
View Document: Annual Report of the Carlisle Indian School, 19117.13 MB
July 6, 1911 - September 30, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Rev. Sherman Coolidge to have his daughter Virginia Coolidge enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Coolidge required an exception from the Office of Indian Schools due to her young…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Virginia Coolidge939.59 KB
July 10, 1911 - August 11, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Angus Splicer to return to the Carlisle Indian School, after being declared ineligible the year before, in order to continue his education at Conway Hall.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Re-Enrollment by Angus Splicer438.78 KB
July 13 - December 16, 1911
Noting heavy criticism from H. B. Peairs and Charles F. Pierce, Superintendent Moses Friedman asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine if he wants Carlisle to continue its Native Indian Arts department, which was started February 1,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Possibility of Abolishing the Native Indian Arts Department1.22 MB
July 19 - August 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence and pamphlets related to circular orders and regulations in force at the Carlisle Indian School under Superintendent Moses Friedman. Friedman forwarded the documents to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Regulations and Circulars for the Carlisle Indian School, 19111.44 MB
July 29, 1911 - August 10, 1911
This material includes correspondence between The Merchants National Bank and the Office of Indian Affairs concerning the financial accounts of Amy Cornelius.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Finance Accounts of Amy Cornelius207.99 KB
August 10, 1911 - September 26, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to allow Adeline Boutang remain at the home of Marie A. Craighead under the outing system to continue nursing Craighead's mother. Boutang was training to be a nurse and had spent two…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Adeline Boutang to Remain on Outing1.61 MB
August 10 - 18, 1911
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Walter Standing Elk to the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Walter Standing Elk to Carlisle816.99 KB
August 1911
Application of Ozetta Bourassa, a member of the Pottawatomi Nation. No other information has been found among admissions ledgers, administrative reports, or school newspapers to suggest that Ozetta Bourassa ever enrolled at Carlisle.
Note…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Ozetta Bourassa Application (Did Not Enroll)482.07 KB
August 14, 1911
After an investigation conducted by "expert foresters," Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $239.25 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1912" account to preserve trees and to remove dead wood and old…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Grounds - Land Issues
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds to Preserve Trees on Campus386.27 KB
August 15, 1911 - April 3, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Samuel Sixkiller enroll his nephew Raymond Ross at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was denied as Ross was a member of the Cherokee Nation and not eligible to receive…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Raymond Ross944.63 KB