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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April 24 - May 3, 1919
Minnie Williams, who is "partly of Indian descent," asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there are any Indian schools in Connecticut and for information on the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Williams that there aren't any…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information on the Carlisle Indian School and Indian Schools in Connecticut372.11 KB
May 17 - July 16, 1919
This document contains correspondence between Wesley Aaron and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Aaron's desire to leave the Navy.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Wesley Aaron's Discharge From The Navy789.22 KB
June 24, 1919 - January 12, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding an attempt by Alaskan student Joseph S. Sheehan to purchase land in Baltimore.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Attempt to Purchase Land in Baltimore by Joseph S. Sheehan955.11 KB
August 5 - December 5, 1919
The Arthur H. Clark Company informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they shipped a set of Volume 2 of "American Indian, as Slave-Holders, Secessionists, and During the Reconstruction" to the Carlisle Indian School and that they have not…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Company's Desire to be Paid for Shipment of Books received after School Closure2.53 MB
September 19, 1919 - October 3, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding a request of John Curtis, of the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the disposition of students following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Information on Disposition of Students333.06 KB
September 23, 1919 - October 2, 1919
Inquiry from A. Reist Rutt regarding continuing the outing program following the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Continuing Outing Program Following Closure of Carlisle311.18 KB
October 13, 1919 - November 10, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by R. T. Hunter seeking information about Leroy Fitswal during his time at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Into Leroy Fitswal466.49 KB
October 16, 1919
Passport and accompanying documents of Antonio Apache.
Repository: Cumberland County Historical Society
Topics:
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Passport of Antonio Apache2.05 MB
December 2-11, 1919
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Edwin C. Allen about re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School after hearing rumors that the School was being reopened.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Reenrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School962.47 KB
December 19, 1919 - January 9, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by J. W. Asher to enter the Carlisle Indian School following its closing.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Request for Enrollment
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment by J. W. Asher499.53 KB
- March 5, 1990
Personnel file of Oscar Hiram Lipps, who served as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School from July 1, 1915 to March 31, 1917. Lipps also was temporarily the Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School from February 1914 to June 1915…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
View Document: Personnel File of Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge and Superintendent8.78 MB
March 31 - April 30, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Daisy Chase to her home in Federal Dam, Minnesota following a nursing program in Massachusetts and an outing with Mary E. Way of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Way requests funds to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to Return Home of Daisy Chase1.82 MB
July 2-24, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses for the course of study pursued by Marie Garlow while she was a student at Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Nursing Training
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Marie Garlow Course of Study356.37 KB
July 5, 1920 - September 27, 1920
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Oscar Nateroak for information about whether the Carlisle Arrow is still being published. Nateroak also provides information about Alaska and his own health.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
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Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Publication of Carlisle Arrow568.21 KB
September 7-20, 1920
George D. Clark asks the Department of Indian Affairs if the Carlisle Indian School is still in operation, and if it's not, what kind of arrangements he could make with schools in the west. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Responsibility of the State of New York to Educate New York Indians365.14 KB
October 13-25, 1920
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from the Society of American Indians for a list of ex-students from Carlisle.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Society of American Indians Request for Names of Ex-Students392.03 KB
December 29, 1920 - January 6, 1921
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Eva Gould Metzger about whether and why the Carlisle Indian School was closed.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Closure of Carlisle Indian School by Eva Gould Metzger314.04 KB
February 18 - March 7, 1921
These materials include letters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to former Carlisle Indian School employees regarding the origins of some artifacts from the school. The artifacts, including a beaded buckskin coat, an old gun, a model of a three-…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Artifacts from the Carlisle Indian School525.92 KB
April 13-20, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Henrietta Nelson, the secretary of Wellsburg High School's Athletic Association, and E. B. Merritt, the Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs concerning the restoration of the Carlisle Indian…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry About Transfer of Carlisle Indian School Campus to War Department269 KB
April 27 - May 5, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Mrs. Jerry Snyder, nee Daisy Doctor, to the Assistant Commissioner Charles H. Buck regarding her relation to Laura M. Doctor.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Letter from Mrs. Jerry Snyder Concerning Laura M. Doctor278.8 KB
June 1, 1921 - April 11, 1922
These materials include correspondence and a pamphlet regarding George W. Tibbetts' eligibility for coverage under Minnesota's Soldiers' Bonus Act. Minnesota's Attorney General ruled that, because Tibbetts had initially claimed exemption from…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Students in Military
View Document: Eligibility of George W. Tibbetts for Minnesota Soldiers' Bonus Act3.47 MB
June 4-11, 1921
This material includes correspondence between Elias Bissell and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt inquiring as to whether the Carlisle Indian School will be reopened.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Closure of the Carlisle Indian School259.18 KB
September 25, 1921 - October 1, 1921
This document contains correspondence between M. W. Acheson and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt. Acheson inquired as to the permanence of the closure of the Carlisle Indian School, and in response Merritt informed him of its definite closure…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding Closure of the Carlisle Indian School252.6 KB
June 2-3, 1922
This document contains correspondence between former Carlisle student R. J. Bonga and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Bonga's desire to enroll students from his area in the closed Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request for Enrollment and Closure of the Carlisle Indian School265.5 KB
June 9-10, 1922
This document contains correspondence between Albert W. Blake, the editor of The Christian Science Monitor, and the Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Blake's interest in a potential continuation of industrial training…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Inquiry Regarding the Fate of the Carlisle Indian School288.44 KB