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 3-25, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to return students whose terms of enrollment had expired or graduated to their homes.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Returned Students List for April 1911650.65 KB
April 8, 1911 - February 16, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Charles Edward Stuck at the Carlisle Indian School. Stuck was denied enrollment due to the policy of not admitting students who lived close to a public school. One letter…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Charles Edward Stuck1.29 MB
April 12-13, 1911
Supervisor Charles F. Peirce informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that Carlisle Indian School student Nancy Conners' mother is sick and needs her assistance. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke forwards Peirce's telegram to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Sickness and Need for Assistance for Student Nancy Conners' Mother361.9 KB
April 14-20, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of students at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine directed Superintendent Moses Friedman to only accept students who had no access to public…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: BIA Policy and Policy Changes
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Federal Enrollment Policy Changes Regarding Public Schools430.71 KB
April 14, 1911 - July 14, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an order from R. G. Valentine, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to accept no students not able to enter the third grade. Superintendent Moses Friedman, of the Carlisle Indian School, objected to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: BIA Policy and Policy Changes
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Grade-Level Restrictions for Enrolled Pupils1.34 MB
April 14 - December 5, 1911
These materials include correspondence and reports from Supervisor of Indian Schools, Charles F. Peirce, listing 69 pupils as ineligible for enrollment at the Carlisle Indian School. Peirce recommended they be dismissed from the school as a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report on Ineligible Students at Carlisle4.22 MB
April 18, 1911 - May 20, 1912
These materials include correspondence concerning the closure of the school bank account of Henry Vilcan.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by Henry Vilcan3.22 MB
April 19, 1911 - April 22, 1911
Representative Sereno E. Payne requests on behalf of Carlisle Indian School farmer, Joseph P. Siebeneicher, a copy of the last Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs be forwarded to Siebeneicher.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Send Annual Report to School Farmer152.36 KB
April 21-25, 1911
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke concerning the appointment of former students to the Indian Service.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Applications for Indian Service Appointment for Former Students152.93 KB
April 27, 1911
These materials include a request by Mrs. F. H. Heugg for information about the Carlisle Indian School and its educational programs, for the purposes of writing a paper.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information about the Carlisle Indian School by Mrs. F. H. Heugg182.44 KB
May 6, 1911- May 27, 1911
This material includes correspondence between Superintendent Moses Friedman and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning "The World in Boston" exhibit. Five Carlisle students, including four men and one woman, took part in the weeks-long…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Exhibits of Student Work
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Correspondence About The World In Boston Exhibition1.27 MB
May 6, 1911 - October 4, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding students from Bent, New Mexico whose eligibility to attend Carlisle was questioned by Charles F. Pierce, Supervisor of Indian Schools. Pierce claimed the students had access to public schools and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Investigation Into Enrollment Eligibility of Mescelero Agency Students1.2 MB
May 10-18, 1911
These materials include correspondence reporting the death of Amy Cornelius of tubercular meningitis. Cornelius body was returned to her family after a funeral service at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths, Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Notice of Death of Amy Cornelius143.77 KB
May 13, 1911 - June 13, 1911
These materials include correspondence and a newspaper clipping concerning the arrest of alleged former student Charles E. Brown on the charges of counterfeiting. Superintendent Moses Friedman states that a student by that name never attended the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Arrest of Alleged Former Student for Counterfeiting456.42 KB
May 20, 1911 - June 17, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into on the return of the Hopi students enrolled at Carlisle in 1907. Ta wa hong yio ma was informed that the students were enrolled for five year terms and their periods of enrollment…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Return Home of Hopi Students593.41 KB
May 26, 1911 - November 3, 1911
These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the request of James Cook to have his son Isaac Cook returned home from the Carlisle Indian School. Superintendent Moses Friedman initially sought to deny the request based on a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Return Home of Isaac Cook1.25 MB
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 - 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
Topics: Request for Enrollment
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
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Remain at Carlisle by Robert Tahamont396.14 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 11-27, 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 19121.58 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
Topics: Request to Remain Enrolled
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
Topics: Request for Enrollment
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