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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March 24 - April 3, 1915
This document contains correspondence concerning the student funds of James Holyeagle. The student was requesting a pro rata share of his tribal trust funds.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Funds by James Holyeagle239.7 KB
March 26, 1915
These materials include a memorandum about reforms made to Carlisle Indian School policies by Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps in response to a 1914 Congressional investigation. The outlined reforms included curtailing the outing program, changing…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Reports
View Document: Memorandum Regarding School Policy Reforms962.81 KB
March 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding Carlisle's policy regarding the treatment and discharge of students who contract a venereal disease while enrolled at the school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Illness
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: School Policy Regarding Venereal Diseases360.76 KB
March 31, 1915 - April 28, 1915
Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh request to use their tribal funds to visit home during vacations. The responses and views of the Secretary of the Interior, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and the Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School are…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request by Oshkosh Children to Use Tribal Funds to Visit Home1.89 MB
April 2, 1915 - January 6, 1942
These materials include documents, correspondence, and legal documents related to a number of bequests and inheritances made to the Carlisle Indian School. The correspondence largely deals with questions of whether and how such bequests should be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Bequests to the Carlisle Indian School16.85 MB
April 5, 1915 - September 16, 1915
Report on the Vocational Courses in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts and Home Economics for the Carlisle Indian School by H. L. Kent, Special Supervisor and correspondence surrounding the report. Kent's report focuses on making Carlisle a secondary…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report on Revised Vocational Training at the Carlisle Indian School18.89 MB
April 6-10, 1915
Hattie Martin requests clarification about enrollment guidelines for government education and whether Martin qualifies to attend Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Eligibility Clarification by Hattie Martin278.2 KB
April 7, 1915 - May 5, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. He also explains how funds requested from April 7 were spent.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Financial Documents
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and Explanation of Authorities211.63 KB
April 10 - 12, 1915
These materials include correspondence from Cato Sells regarding a request from Nancy Lane that Relia, Roland, and Roy Oshkosh to use their pro rata shares of the tribal trust fund to visit their home during the school vacation.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Use of Pro Rata Tribal Funds to Visit Home649.67 KB
April 17 - October 9, 1915
Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps writes to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells regarding creating a survey for Indians that have attended boarding schools. By creating a survey, Lipps hopes to discover whether…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Indian School System
Format: Letters/Correspondence
April 22, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the need for superintendents of nonreservation schools to communicate when students attempt to re-enroll in a different school, using two former Carlisle students as examples.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Policy Regarding Enrollment of Former Pupils at Other Schools486.44 KB
April 26, 1915
These materials include correspondence to the father of William Ghost Dog, notifying him that William saved the two-year-old son of the school printer from drowning.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Praise for William Ghost Dog After Rescuing Drowning Toddler105.63 KB
April 26, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the desertion of Ben Bearchild from Carlisle, and funds to pay for a baseball uniform.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Runaway of Ben Bearchild147.82 KB
April 28, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Hermis Merrivall to his home in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of Hermis Merrivall251.52 KB
April 29, 1915 - May 12, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the release of Hannah Kennedy from the Sleighton Farm reformatory school for girls into the care of Mary T. Scheurman.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Care of Hannah Kennedy1.08 MB
April 29, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding Supervisor Oscar Lipps' decision to send Edward Brien back to his home in North Dakota.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return Home of Edward Brien246.34 KB
May 1, 1915
These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: History of the Carlisle Indian School, School Employees - General, Inspection of the School, Discipline - General, Student Living Conditions, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Industrial Training - General, Tobacco Use at the School, Interactions with Local Population, Inspection Reports
Format: Reports
View Document: Inspection Report of J. H. Dortch for May 19153.02 MB
May 3-12, 1915
These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Article Regarding Student Discipline and Town Interactions1.2 MB
May 4-20, 1915
Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Supervisor Oscar H. Lipps that they have several strategic maps of central Europe and asks if they would be useful at the school. Lipps replies that they would be "very glad to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Academic Supplies, School Library, World War I
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Shipment of World War I Maps for School Library326.41 KB
May 10-11, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt requests that the Carlisle Indian School print 3,000 bulletins from Boise, Idaho. The bulletin is called "Official News from the State Board of Health." Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Printing Department
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Printing State Board of Health Bulletin 205.89 KB
May 12, 1915
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells forwards a newspaper article about behavior of the school's male students with alcohol and local women to Oscar Lipps and asks for his response.
In his reply Lipps disputes some of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Male Students Drinking and Spending Time with Carlisle Women1.2 MB
May 12-14, 1915
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps requests $100 to pay for incidental expenses associated with the administration of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Lipps…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Request for Funds for Incidental Expenses and a Request to Wait303.19 KB
May 14 - 29, 1915
These materials include a request by LeRoy Spencer to take a course in chemical engineering at Carlisle. As Carlisle did not offer work in chemistry and chemical engineering, he was sent the Arrow with a course catalog.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by LeRoy Spencer450.86 KB
May 18, 1915
Naomi Greensky's program for the commencement concert on May 18, 1915 by the Carlisle Indian School band.
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Graduation, School Band Performances
Format: Books and Pamphlets
View Document: Commencement Concert program, 1915704.71 KB
May 20-29, 1915
These materials include a report and correspondence regarding H. B. Peairs' investigation of discipline at the Carlisle Indian School in May, 1915. The report notes numerous improvements that were made and should be pursued. Superintendent Oscar…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Discipline Inspection Report of H. B. Peairs for May 19154.02 MB