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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September 21, 1914 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Dora B. McCauley that her brother Eugene McCauley be granted a release from Carlisle in order to take up stenographic work at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Eugene…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Permit Enrollment of Eugene McCauley at Haskell323.26 KB
September 22-25, 1914
These materials include a request by Representative J. Washington Logue for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for 1914 Investigation Report by J. Washington Logue226.27 KB
September 24 - November 2, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the education of members of the Cherokee Nation from Robeson County, North Carolina.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Education of Cherokee Nation Students from Robeson County483.69 KB
September 24, 1914 - October 5, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Charles Pratt, whose term of enrollment had expired, through the remainder of the school year or until a position of baker in the Indian Service became open.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Re-enroll Charles Pratt227.91 KB
September 25 - October 3, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that he has found no evidence of communicable diseases among school employees. Lipps forwards Rendtorff's report the Commissioner of Indian Affairs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Absence of Communicable Diseases Among School Employees238.93 KB
September 25, 1914
A contractual agreement is made between Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School and Robert Thompson for Thompson to supply the school with coal.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Contract for Coal with Robert Thompson1.11 MB
September 28 - October 10, 1914
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps that they have just sent two color maps of the parts of Europe that are in conflict and suggests hanging them up…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies, School Library, Football, World War I
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Display of World War I Maps and Questions Regarding Students Attending Football Games742.85 KB
September 29, 1914 - October 12, 1914
These materials include correspondence related to recommendations made by Emma D. Goulette, Vice-President on Education for The Society of American Indians. Goulette, in response to the 1914 Congressional investigation of the Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: 1914 Congressional Investigation
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendations from Emma D. Goulette690.43 KB
October 1 - 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy in Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The headmaster of the Keewatin Academy claimed the Carlisle Indian School administration and Coach Glenn "Pop"…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy2.54 MB
October 1-8, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to waive the requirement that Bud Walker pay for his own transportation to and tuition at the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Waive Enrollment Costs for Bud Walker471.38 KB
October 2 - 8, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the authority to pay a fee for recovering James Running Hawk.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
View Document: Request for Authority to Pay Runaway Fee203.52 KB
October 3 - 29, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint against Richard Kesetta as a child. Further information is given about the circumstances of how Kesetta came to be a student at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint Against Richard Kesetta847.74 KB
October 5, 1914 - October 24, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps asks the Indian Office if authorities have been granted for a request from September 17, 1914 because he needs them to complete his quarterly accounts.
Assistant…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Question Regarding Funds for Quarterly Accounts332.45 KB
October 6-31, 1914
Mrs. Rose Collins asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells why her daughter, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, has to pay for her own music lessons. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke forwards Collins' letter to Supervisor…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Music Instruction
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Parental Question Regarding the Cost of Piano Lessons613.46 KB
October 8-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a clerical error that arose from confusion between Mabel and Lena Brunette. Lena was on outing and feared that she would not receive money sent to her for her return home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Clerical Error Regarding Lena Brunette599.7 KB
October 10-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence related to a request by George Appletree to have his nieces and nephew, Susie, Carrie, and Lucien Rice, attend the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment of Rice Children539.87 KB
October 10-19, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the transfer of Filerio Tafoya from Carlisle to the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School to take a course in electrical engineering.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Filerio Tafoya290.12 KB
October 12-22, 1914
This material includes a letter from Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps about the application for enrollment of Edward Anderson.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request For Enrollment of Edward Anderson194.72 KB
October 12, 1914 - March 12, 1915
Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" appropriation to pay for incidental expenses incurred in the administration of the school, and he enumerates the expenses and vouchers. Lipps…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
View Document: Request to Spend $147.03 for Incidental Expenses, Fiscal Year 1914-19151.29 MB
October 13, 1914 - July 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request for enrollment by Samuel White Bear, as well as a request for executive clemency for a court-imposed fine.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment and Clemency for Samuel White Bear2.18 MB
October 14, 1914 - February 13, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louis D. White to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School, including a resolution by the Mohawk Council of Tribes.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Re-Enrollment by Louis D. White2.12 MB
October 16, 1914 - February 15, 1915
These materials include correspondence concerning the application for tribal funds by student and upcoming graduate Cora Battice.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Application for Tribal Funds by Cora Battice913.07 KB
October 17, 1914 - November 17, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the application by student James Holy Eagle towards his pro rata share of tribal trust funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Tribal Funds by James Holy Eagle7.44 MB
October 19 - 31, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint made by J. Brown Kelly, a farmer with land next to the Carlisle School, against students who were vandalizing his property.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Discipline - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Complaint by J. Brown Kelly1.44 MB
October 20, 1914 - December 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll four applicants living near Charenton, Louisiana. Superintendent Lipps was informed that he should look into the individual merits of each case and was given permission to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment for Four Chitimacha Members259.16 KB