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 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
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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
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 - 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
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home for John Laughing1.43 MB
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
Topics:
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 1, 1911
Emma Cutter served as a teacher at Carlisle from December 1, 1879 until June 1, 1907. She spent another two years as a teacher at the Phoenix Indian School before she transferred to the Office of Indian Affairs in Washington, DC where she worked…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Teachers
Format: Reports
View Document: Selection of Personnel Folder of Emma Cutter498.76 KB
July 1, 1911 - May 8, 1912
This service card tracks James Garlow's record of employment with the Office of Indian Affairs. He began working at Carlisle as an "Indian Assistant" in 1911, leaving for the last time in 1912.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Service Record Card of James Garlow482.55 KB
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
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Virginia Coolidge939.59 KB
July 10 - 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
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Re-Enrollment by Angus Splicer977.06 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