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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January 12, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt notifies the Office of Indian Affairs that Obadiah G. Given is at the San Carlos Agency recruiting students for the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Recruitment of Students
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Office Informed of Given Recruiting Students at San Carlos Agency315.77 KB
January 12, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs telegraph that he has sent the school physician Obadiah G. Given to recruit students among the Pueblos and Apaches. He also details arrangements he has made with the Atchison, Topeka,…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recruiting Students Among the Apache and Pueblo1.15 MB
January 16, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs how many children will from Arkansas City will join Carlisle Indian School Agent and school physician Obadiah G. Given.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry into Number of Children to Met Carlisle Agent405.85 KB
January 17, 1884 - January 28, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from Baptiste Bayhylle and Ralph J. Weeks regarding a request from a Pawnee Chiefs to visit Carlisle. Pratt provides some context to their request including the fact that many served as scouts during the war…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Request for Pawnee Chiefs to Travel East1.45 MB
January 24, 1884
Robert Todd Lincoln, Secretary of War, forwards a copy of a telegram to inform the Department of the Interior that Lieutenant West has departed San Carlos in charge of 52 children including 47 boys and five girls for Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Apache Students Now Headed for Carlisle from San Carlos1.09 MB
February 1884
Petition for the return of James Thomas, Matilda Thomas, and Mary Johnson from the Carlisle Indian School. The petitioners claim that the children were sent to Carlisle under the false pretense that the school was a school for white children that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Three Onondaga Nation Students878 KB
February 2, 1884
William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency, recommends sending 50 children to the Carlisle Indian School following the positive association with the school. Llewellyn notes that the sooner this is…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Llewellyn Requests Authority to Send 50 Students from the Apache Nation to Carlisle888.78 KB
February 2, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt petitions the Office of Indian Affairs to enroll 50 students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies. Pratt notes that the headmen from each Agency having visited the Carlisle Indian School now have a high opinion of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Enroll 50 Students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agencies888.78 KB
February 8, 1884
William H. H. Llewellyn, U.S. Indian Agent for the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency, provides a recommendation on which railroad route to send fifty students to the Carlisle Indian School along with ways to limit the cost of involved by sending one…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Recommendation for Route for Students from the Mescalero and Jicarilla Agency637.5 KB
February 8, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt details his disappointment the fulfillment he made of a request for boots from the Department of the Interior. Pratt notes that he expected a variety of sizes but was instead only provided with one size. As a result he…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Specific Boot Sizes for Upcoming Years650.54 KB
February 18, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Secretary of the Interior regarding a proposal to supply four wagons to Sioux Chiefs rather than having them travel East.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Supply Wagons to Sioux Chiefs654.98 KB
February 18, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request to enroll six students from the St. Regis band. Pratt states that Carlisle can take the students and provides details concerning the characteristics of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Response to Inquiry to Enroll Six St. Regis Students437.36 KB
February 19, 1884
Thomas W. Haskins, President of the Homewood School, informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the second group of students have gone to Carlisle and he will follow-up with the particulars.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Group from the Homewood School Sent to Carlisle307.04 KB
February 20, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt states that he can get through the present fiscal year on his appropriation but needs aid for travel expenses and maintenance of the incoming party from Mescalero.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Aid Requested for Travel and Maintenance of Incoming Mescalero Party318.89 KB
February 20, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt requests that he be given written authority to support the verbal authority he received to increase the number of pupils enrolled, including from San Carlos and eight students he has already accepted from the Chippewa Nation…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Written Authority To Enroll More Students652.16 KB
February 21, 1884 - March 3, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt answers a letter from the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding students from the Onondaga Nation and a disconnect regarding the status of R. H. Gardner as an Agent in New York. Pratt also encloses a letter from Julia E.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Status of Onondaga Children at Carlisle in 18841.07 MB
February 25, 1884
E. B. Townsend, Special Agent, writes the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a student from the Sac and Fox Nation who was sent East to study at the Hampton Institute but is currently living in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The student…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Enrolling Sac and Fox Student Living in Massachusetts423.5 KB
February 27, 1884 - March 7, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt forwards the proceedings of a Board of Survey convened on February 29, 1884 to dispose of worn out and otherwise unserviceable property and drop them from his property returns.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Forwards Board of Survey Proceedings Convened in February 18842.14 MB
February 27, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt requests the money for the Hocker Farm lease early in order to pay interest, taxes, and other expenses due on April 1, 1884. Pratt asks how to proceed to receive the funds in time.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Lease Money for the Hocker Farm Early410.37 KB
February 28, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $6,362.80 for support of school.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
View Document: Special Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1884852.6 KB
March 3, 1884
J. L. Thomas writes regarding a request from the Onondaga Nation to have their children returned from the Carlisle Indian School. Thomas references the Onondaga Chief Daniel La Fort's visit to Washington where he secured a promise to have the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Onondaga Children Home467.98 KB
March 5, 1884 - March 28, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding the ownership of the property upon which the Carlisle Indian School is located. Pratt notes that the Department of the Interior has made significant improvements to the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Proposal to Formally Transfer Title of School Property to Interior Department2.01 MB
March 10, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Department of Indian Affairs that he has contracted to have fifty students from the Mescalero Band of the Apache Nation to be transported to the Carlisle Indian School. He queries the office as to where the funds…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Fifty Apache Students to be Transported to Carlisle313.35 KB
March 10, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt follows up on his letter of February 27, 1884 regarding the Hocker Farm lease. Pratt notes that part of the $1000 now and the remainder to be used at the end of the month and asks how the payment should be made.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Farms - Land Transactions
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Follows Up on Making Payment of Hocker Farm in April 1884421.08 KB
March 14, 1884
Richard Henry Pratt inquires of the Office of Indian Affairs how to disburse the Hocker Farm money as he has not heard a reply to his letters of February 27, 1884 and March 10, 1884.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Follows Up Again on Disbursing Hocker Farm Money in April 1884318.93 KB