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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August 27, 1918 - August 30, 1918
Traveling Auditor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School C. V. Peel encloses former bandmaster and current Lieutenant James R. Wheelock's request to pay the balance left on his salary to his wife.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Pay Lieutenant James R. Wheelock's Salary to his Wife246.11 KB
September 3, 1918 - September 25, 1918
Travelling Auditor in Charge at the Carlisle Indian School Claude V. Peel requests that Austin, Nichols & Co. are paid for five hundred pounds of hominy and Reid, Murdoch & Co. are paid for rolled oats. Chief Clerk C. F. Hauke informs…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Claims for Hominy and Rolled Oats252.28 KB
September 4, 1918 - September 1, 1918
Reverend Walter L. Ritter asks the Indian Bureau if the Outing System still exists and requests to host a 16-18 year old girl if it does. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Ritter that the Carlisle Indian School closed, so it is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Know the Status of the Outing System285.56 KB
September 11, 1918 - October 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence containing a request from Fred Skenandore, a former student, regarding the status of the Carlisle Indian School. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informed Skenandore that the school had…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Closure of Carlisle Indian School by Fred Skenandore284.64 KB
September 11- 17, 1918
These materials include correspondence concerning the transfer of funds from students at Carlisle who were transferred to the Chilocco Indian School upon the closure of Carlisle in 1918.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Funds for Pupils Transferred to Chilocco Indian School214.03 KB
October 8-19, 1918
These materials include a request from George Cushing to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, asking for permission to take the students' course in automobile manufacturing at the Ford Motor Company factory in Detroit, Michigan. Cushing's…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of George Cushing to Attend Ford Motor Company Course490.37 KB
October 17, 1918 - May 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Alice E. Patterson to have her two sons Robert and Burnell transferred to another Indian School upon the close of Carlisle. Also included is correspondence between R. A. Cochran,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Transfer Robert and Burnell Patterson792.84 KB
October 20 - November 6, 1918
This material includes correspondence between Sadie Ingalls Feder and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning former student Henry Ingalls McClellan and his desire to be drafted to the Army.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Draft of Henry Ingalls McClellan673.43 KB
October 21, 1918 - May 14, 1920
This material includes correspondence between Corporal Frank J. Mitchell, his wife, and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Mitchell's marriage.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Marriage of Frank J. Mitchell814.38 KB
November 15, 1918 - December 4, 1918
These materials include a inquiry by Loren Jackson on the whereabouts of his son Jacob Jackson following the close of the Carlisle School. Jackson was informed his son had returned to his outing home under S. W. McKeehan in Carlisle, Pennsylvania…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Whereabouts of Jacob Jackson665.86 KB
November 20 - December 3, 1918
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Isaac Willis about ending his enlistment in the United States Navy early and entering college.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of Isaac Willis to End Naval Enlistment Early663.12 KB
November 23, 1918 - June 10, 1938
This material includes correspondence between former student Leon A. Miller and John Collier, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Miller was attempting to start post-graduate work at a local university and was requesting his school records.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request from Leon A. Miller Concerning His School Records947.5 KB
November 29, 1918 - April 19, 1966
This material is a collection of correspondence received by the Office of Indian Affairs between 1918 and 1966, all related to the Carlisle Indian School. As the Carlisle Indian School closed in 1918, the majority of these letters are either…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Correspondence File, 1918-196638.03 MB
November 30, 1918 - February 26, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the health of Clara Shunion. Shunion stayed in Pennsylvania on outing following the close of the Carlisle School, and developed tuberculous. After residing for some time in the Bryn Mawr Hospital,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Health of Clara Shunion1.17 MB
December 4, 1918
These materials include correspondence pertaining to a request by the Arthur C. Bachmeyer, Commanding Officer of U.S. Army General Hospital 31, for records relating to the land of the former Carlisle Indian School. Those records, not included…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Transfer of Land Records Related to the Carlisle Indian School250.37 KB
December 30, 1918 - January 19, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding unclaimed letters sent to the outing home of patron Virginia Allen, where former student Nellie Thompson remained following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Unclaimed Letters Sent to Nellie Thompson1.29 MB
January 11 - 17, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request of George James Cayenne, a former student at Carlisle, to enroll again in an Indian School following his service in the U. S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Oklahoma during World War I.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Re-enrollment of George James Cayenne in an Indian School350.69 KB
January 25 - March 1, 1919
This document contains correspondence between Lyman B. Madison and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Frederick Walker's request to discharge from the United States Navy.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Frederick Walker's Request to be Released from the Navy1.05 MB
February 6, 1919
Cato Sells replies to Henry G. Thomas, Secretary to Senator Robert L. Owen, regarding the request of Mrs. C. D. Markham for information on the American Indian. Sells provides some information about a publication about Geronimo, the reason for the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Replies to Request for Information from Mrs. C. D. Markham251.19 KB
February 13, 1919 - July 1, 1919
This material includes correspondence between Edward P. Thorpe and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Thorpe's desire to be formally discharged from the United States Navy.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Discharge of Edward Thorpe from the Navy472.24 KB
March 12-25, 1919
This material includes correspondence between Ned Wilnota and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Wilnota's request to be discharged from the Navy.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Ned Wilnota's Discharge From The US Navy487.16 KB
March 13 - September 4, 1919
These materials include an inquiry into the enrollment and employment status of William Henry "Lonestar" Dietz at Chilocco and Carlisle. The Office of Indian Affairs was asked to provide records about Dietz to clarify Dietz's citizenship, after…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Into Citizenship and Enrollment of William Henry Dietz1.04 MB
March 14-28, 1919
Inquiry from Charles Samuel to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding having an outing student placed at his home.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Outing Patrons
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Outing Student Following Closure of Carlisle410.44 KB
March 14, 1919
W. H. Bowers requests assistance from the Office of Indian Affairs in securing an outing student from the Carlisle Indian School following the school's closure.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Outing Student following Closure of Carlisle1.13 MB
March 15 - 25, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding the academic record of Charles Ape-Kaum following his discharge of the Navy and prior to taking up his studies again at the Central State Normal School in Edmond, Oklahoma.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Academic Record of Charles Ape-Kaum239.93 KB