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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November 15, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs he is returning invoices of stationary.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Stationary Invoices394.8 KB
November 21, 1883 - November 27, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from former Carlisle Indian School student Ralph Eagle Feather regarding his grandfather who left the Rosebud Agency under the care of a former U.S. Indian Agent. Eagle Feather requests help in…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Help in Returning Grandfather of Ralph Eagle Feather991.76 KB
November 23, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to pay for the expenses of all students whose terms of enrollment expire and ill health during the remainder of the 1883 fiscal year.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Students During the 1883 Fiscal Year667.87 KB
November 26, 1883
J. M. Haworth reports that arrangements might be made to allow for the San Carlos students to be sent with the Fort Union students to the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Arrangements to Transport San Carlos Children with Fort Union Children386.52 KB
November 28, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests the Office of Indian Affairs authority to send Cora Eyre to the Navajo Agency to work as a laundress at the agency school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Authority Sought for Cora Eyre to Work at Navajo Agency429.72 KB
December 1, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt objects to U.S. Indian Agent Wilcox spending his appropriation unless he can do so more economically.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Objects to Agent Spending His Appropriation382.68 KB
December 1, 1883 - February 7, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a request for the return of Onondaga children currently enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt provides context to the request for the return of the children and determines that it might be best to return the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Onondaga Nation Students1.28 MB
December 5, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt forwards at the request of the Office of Indian Affairs five copies for the lease of the Hocker Farm signed by members of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. Pratt notes that Board was authorized to act in all…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Lease of the Hocker Farm426.75 KB
December 6, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt provides further discussion related to his telegraph objecting to U.S. Indian Agent Wilcox spending his appropriation money in transporting students from the Apache Nation to Carlisle. Pratt indicates that he had negotiated…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Further Objects to Apache Indian Agent Spending His Appropriation919.1 KB
December 8, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests that funds expended from the Carlisle Indian School appropriation to send three students to take positions in the Indian Service at the Navajo Agency be refunded from another fund.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Funds to Send Students to Indian Service Positions be Refunded412.04 KB
December 11, 1883
Estimate of funds for the first quarter of 1884 amounting to $14,401.00 for support of the school and estimate of supplies ammounting to $1,196. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $5,510.00 for regular employee pay.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence, Reports
December 11, 1883
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Dr. Cornelius Rea Agnew with an update on the school and the rising number of students. He also writes about his desire to find benefactors interested in creating a new Indian industrial school to…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Topics: Fundraising, Enrollment Statistics
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew3 MB
December 11, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests a position to be placed in charge of the outing program at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that he has been hesitant to fill this position in order to save money but the increase in outings has now meant the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Employee in Charge of the Outing Program1.14 MB
December 22, 1883
Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt writes to Doctor Cornelius Rea Agnew thanking him for his "practical interest" in the school in regards to the arrival of two calves for the school farm. Pratt also mentions the illness of over sixty students to…
Repository: Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Letter from Richard H. Pratt to Cornelius R. Agnew1.3 MB
December 25, 1883
J. M. Haworth, Interpreter, follows up on his telegram asking about sending the children of the prisoners of Fort Union, New Mexico to the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Enrolling Fort Union Children at Carlisle634.29 KB
December 26, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding a letter he has received from the Superintendent of the Genoa School to transfer five students to Genoa when the school opens in February 1884. Pratt states that while he is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Five Students to the Genoa School907.92 KB
December 27, 1883
White Eagle requests that Richard Henry Pratt request from Washington D.C. a spring wagon and harness from the Carlisle Indian School. White Eagle also discusses sending more children from the Ponca Agency and returning his son Frank Eagle back…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: White Eagle Requests a Wagon and Harness from Carlisle1.17 MB
December 28, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt notes that the Lincoln Institute has appealed to him to help them fill their quota of students. As a result he proposes to transfer 26 girls including the small girls at Carlisle and four or five large girls who would be…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposed Transfer of Small Girls to the Lincoln Institute437.13 KB
1884
Special Case for Suffield
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Miscellaneous
View Document: Special Case for Suffield140.02 KB
January 2, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the Lincoln Institute wants 27 students. He also asks if there is any trouble with the reimbursement to his funds that separate vouchers be taken for the Lincoln Institute for those…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Lincoln Institute Transfer and Reimbursement400.8 KB
January 2, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that Mrs. Cox is coming to the Carlisle Indian School to arrange for transferring girls to the Lincoln Institute. Pratt asks for the conclusions from the Office of Indian Affairs about…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information for Transferring Girls to Lincoln Institute370.04 KB
January 3, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt asks of the Office of Indian Affairs if he should pay for the transportation of 27 girls to the Lincoln Institute.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Transfers
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Transportation Costs for Lincoln Transfer368.95 KB
January 5, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt makes the recommendation to the Office of Indian Affairs of keeping students whose terms are set to expire through the end of the school term in June.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Continuing Enrollment of Students Whose Terms Are Expiring887.65 KB
January 8, 1884 - January 12, 1884
Major General John Pope telegraphs Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, regarding enrolling children from the Apache Nation at Carlisle or other schools.
Lincoln forwards a copy of the telegraph to the Secretary of the Interior along…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrollment of Apache Children in Arizona at Carlisle1.33 MB
January 9, 1884
These materials include a cover letter and Descriptive Statements of Pupils regarding 27 children transferred to the Lincoln Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Carlisle Indian School. Those children, from a variety of Nations, had…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Descriptive Statement of Pupils Transferred to Lincoln Institute, 18846.68 MB