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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June 9, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $1,579.29 to purchase fresh beef.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1883829.31 KB
June 11, 1883
The U.S. Indian Agent at the Arapaho Agency requests the return of the body of Adam McCarty, a member of the Modoc Nation, who is a student at the Carlisle Indian School. The Agent notes that McCarty is dying and the Modoc Nation is greatly…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Deaths
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Body of Adam McCarty to be Returned370.72 KB
June 14, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority for allowing Joshua Given to serve as an interpreter for three chiefs Kiowa Agency while they visit Washington D.C.
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Permission for Joshua Given to Serve as Interpreter418.15 KB
June 19, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $80, to cover the expense of the Spring Wagon shipped to Captian Saukadota and to purchase fresh beef.
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View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, Second Quarter 1883732.24 KB
June 21, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt replies to a letter received from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding small girls to be sent to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia. Pratt notes that he would be willing to send a number of young girls at Carlisle to be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Exchanging Students with the Lincoln Institute612.84 KB
June 25, 1883 - July 3, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from C. L. Hall regarding the appointment of the Superintendent of the Fort Stevenson Indian School. Pratt notes that he agrees with Hall that the Superintendent should be subject to the whims of the Agent.…
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Appointment of the Superintendent of the Fort Stevenson Indian School511.87 KB
July 5, 1883 - July 22, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from former student William B. Peery regarding the state of the Peoria Agency. Peery states that the Indian Department is withholding money meant to educate students as well as preventing students from being…
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints Regarding Education at the Peoria Nation1.01 MB
July 9, 1883
Charles E. Monteith, U.S. Indian Agent for the Nez Perce agency, requests authority to purchase a new wagon due to the unsafe and unfit wagon the agency recently received from the Carlisle Indian School. Monteith provides details of how the wagon…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaints Regarding Wagon from the Carlisle Indian School1.86 MB
July 9, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his earlier letter emphasizing his request to return Manuelito Chou as soon as possible due to his poor health.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Repeated Request to Return Manuelito to His Home485.46 KB
July 9, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to return and pay expenses for Manuelito Chou, Francisco, Eva Rufina, and Edward Myers to be returned to their homes due to their health. In addition, Pratt requests authority to return John Bull to be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Five Students to Their Homes672.25 KB
July 10, 1883
Estimate of funds for the third quarter of 1883 amounting to $19.116.40 for support of the school and transportation of Indian supplies. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds for regular employee pay.
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View Document: Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Third Quarter 18831.29 MB
July 13, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt reports on the death of Taylor Ealy, a member of the Pueblo Nation, while vacationing with Dr. T. F. Ealy in Schellsburg, Pennsylvania. Pratt notes that he instructed Dr. Ealy to have Taylor Ealy be buried in Schellsburg and…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness, Student Deaths
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Report on the Death of Taylor Ealy659.74 KB
July 13, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from John Harris, the U.S. Indian Agent for the Lemhi Agency, in regards to sending a delegation of students from the Agency to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt also comments on the current number of…
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Response to Sending Delegation of Students from the Lemhi Agency866.22 KB
July 15, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to visit students on outing in order to determine how students are doing and whether they should be able to remain during the winter in order to attend local public schools. Pratt also requests authority to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Program Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Authority Sought to Visit Students on Outing622.28 KB
July 25, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority for his actions in returning the Mary Ealy, the last member of the Pueblo (Zuni) Nation at Carlisle, with the party of ill Navajo students being led home by Dr. Lippincott.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Mary Ealy to Her Home454.26 KB
July 28, 1883 - August 6, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt inquires from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs what action to pursue as he has not heard from the Secretary of the Interior regarding a proposed course of action to use Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania as a…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal for Making Wilson College a School for Native Women1.98 MB
August 10, 1883 - August 17, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from Julia E. Remington, a missionary at the Church of the Good Shepherd, to enroll Moses Cole, Martin Hill, and Stephen Webster at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll Moses Cole, Martin Hill, and Stephen Webster1.01 MB
August 11, 1883 - November 22, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt documents his trip to the Rosebud Agency where he attempted to secure ninety students for the school. He notes that after an initial meeting where this was received with much enthusiasm, he failed to gather the allotted…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Difficulties in Securing Students from the Rosebud Agency9.26 MB
August 18, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt provides a copy of blueprints for building a small house for the disciplinarian of the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that the house will allow room for additional pupils.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Proposal for New Housing for Disciplinarian1.49 MB
August 13-20, 1883
D. M. Riordan, U.S. Indian Agent for the Navajo Agency, writes to the Richard Henry Pratt on the anger of Manuelito regarding the death of his son. Manuelito asks for all of the Navajo students to be sent back from Carlisle. Riordan states that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Status of the Navajo Agency Following the Death of Manuelito Choni1.63 MB
August 16, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to send 43 pupils to their homes following the expiration of their three year term of enrollment. Pratt notes that the number of students might decrease when he meets with the parents during a visit to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return 43 Students to Their Homes658.55 KB
August 16, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to return four Crow students who had various ailments upon their arrival to Carlisle.
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Four Crow Students582.44 KB
August 16, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to pay for the expenses of transporting Robert Stewart and Antoinette Williams to the Navajo Agency in order to take positions as teachers.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transportation of Robert Stewart and Antoinette to Navajo Agency612.95 KB
August 18, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt discusses the number of students that Carlisle can carry for the upcoming school year in 1883. He declares that the school is currently has around 320 students enrolled and can carry over 400 which he proposes to acquire from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recruiting Students for the 1883-1884 School Year1.42 MB
August 25, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt notes that he has received a letter from the Superintendent of the Albuquerque School that Carlisle could receive an additional 50 pupils from the Pueblo Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Increase Number of Pueblo Students at Carlisle444.96 KB