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 20, 1891 - November 23, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Thomas J. Morgan regarding accepting students from Arizona. Pratt states that he would not hesitate to accept pupils during the winter. In addition he discusses delaying their enrollment to the spring…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Transfer of Students From Arizona1.36 MB
November 21, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt notes that C. R. Dixon, School Physician, recommends that pupils have a liberal supply of fruit available. With the delay in dried fruit, Pratt requests authority to purchase 110 bushels of apples.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Food and Dining
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Requests Authority to Purchase 110 Bushels of Apples529.54 KB
November 23, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt writes to Thomas J. Morgan on behalf of Captain Brown of the Pine Ridge Agency. Brown seeks to enlist and command his own company of Indian soldiers at the agency which Pratt approves of in order to create no disharmony…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Agency/Reservation Business
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Writes to Recommend Pine Ridge Agent be in Charge of Troops478.11 KB
November 24, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that none of the party of seven students from Red Lake have arrived, but the one from the White Earth Agency who was to accompany them has arrived at Carlisle. Pratt further states that…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Update on Red Lake Party and Proposal to Send School Employee for Students534.82 KB
November 28, 1891
Festus Pelone requests permission from Thomas J. Morgan to be returned to his home during the winter. Pelone writes that he has no money in the bank due to being unfairly punished by Richard Henry Pratt for leaving his outing.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request of Festus Pelone to be Returned Home613.28 KB
December 1891
Richard Henry Pratt provides a report responding to questions from the Office of Indian Affairs on the needs of the Carlisle Indian School. Included are discussions on the need for more land, additional educational needs, and industrial training…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Industrial Training - General, School Farms - Land Transactions, Outing Program – Overview/Statistics/Success of, Indian School System, Factors Affecting Student Recruitment, Discipline - Punishment, Printing Department, Student Living Conditions, School Library, Student Transfers, World's Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), Students Running Away, School Employees - Housing, School Utilities, Buildings and Grounds - General Descriptions, School Curriculum, Books Used at School, School Farms - Productivity, Medical Examinations of Potential Students, Opposition to Carlisle from Agency Clergy, Student Illness, Music Instruction, Supplies – Requests and Fulfillment, Recordkeeping at the School, Discipline - Student Court Process
Format: Reports
View Document: Report Responding to Questions on the Carlisle Indian School5.61 MB
December 2, 1891
C. R. A. Scobey, U.S. Indian Agent for the Fort Peck Agency, writes to the Office of Indian Affairs letter objecting to a letter from Richard Henry Pratt to Smoker. Scobey claims that the agency has sent sixty students to Carlisle and that all of…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Scobey Objects to Letter from Pratt to Uncle of Student1.26 MB
December 3, 1891
B. F. Gilkeson, Comptroller in the Second Comptroller's Office, responds to Thomas J. Morgan's letter regarding using interest generated from the Osage Fund to pay for Osage students at the Carlisle Indian School. Gilkeson writes that his…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Financial Affairs - Management
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Comptroller Opinion on Osage Fund Paying for Students at Carlisle1.05 MB
December 3, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt replies to two Office of Indian Affairs letters regarding the construction of the Boiler House and the pay of student Nellie Carey as a matron.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Response to Office Letters Regarding Boiler House and Nellie Carey741.12 KB
December 4, 1891
C. R. Dixon, the school physician, compiles the monthly sanitary report for November 1891.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Monthly Sanitary Report of Sick and Wounded, November 18911.6 MB
December 4, 1891 - December 15, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from former student Co-zed (Below) requesting assistance in obtaining a shop at the Kiowa Agency.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Below Co-zed's Letter Requesting Shop717.27 KB
December 7, 1891
Captain Richard H. Pratt requests a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Legal and Government Documents
View Document: Requisition for Blanks and Blank Books, December 1891763.57 KB
December 8, 1891
Captain Richard H. Pratt submits a report that lists irregular employees who worked at the school during November 1891. The report includes details on compensation, position titles, race, and the number of days worked during that month.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students - Irregular Employees
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Report of Irregular Employees, November 18912.79 MB
December 10, 1891
Charles S. Kelsey, U.S. Indian agent for the Green Bay Agency, informs the Office of Indian Affairs that eight students have departed the agency for the Carlisle Indian School.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Student Travel to Enroll
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Green Bay Agency Sending Eight Students to Carlisle562.28 KB
December 10, 1891
Captain Richard H. Pratt returns corrected report of irregular employees who worked at the school during October 1891. Pratt advises the Commissioner of Indian Affairs of the changes made in the amount paid to A. Smith and George Work.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics:
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Return of Report of Irregular Employees, October 1891725.62 KB
December 11, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt requests from the Office of Indian Affairs to be informed if a group of Piegan chiefs decide to visit the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt writes that he was informed that the chiefs are visiting Washington D.C. from his students…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Request to be Informed if Piegan Chiefs Decide to Visit Carlisle514.98 KB
December 14, 1891
Captain Richard H. Pratt replies to a letter from the Commission of Indian Affairs questioning the report of irregular employees during October 1891. Pratt explains why some regular employees were submitted as irregular, why irregular employees…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: School Employees - General
Format: Letters/Correspondence, Reports
View Document: Explanation to Report of Irregular Employees, October 18911.61 MB
December 15, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request to be returned home by Festus Pelone. Pratt includes a copy of Pelone's disciplinary record while at Carlisle and notes that his punishment of being on "no pay…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Request to Return Festus Pelone967.46 KB
December 15, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from the Office of Indian Affairs regarding a letter from C. R. A. Scobey, U.S. Indian Agent for the Fort Peck Agency. Pratt writes that he was mistaken in his letter to Smoker of the identity of the…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Scobey's Letter Regarding Student Sent by Agency1.07 MB
December 16, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding a request from James Bird for the return of his daughter Fanny Bird due to his illness. Pratt notes that Fanny is only 11 but has been at the school three years and both…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Responds to Request for Return of Fanny Bird550.46 KB
December 19, 1891
Robert H. Ashley, U.S. Indian Agent for the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the return of Fanny Bird. Ashley states that her father has been getting better and that Fanny would be better off at…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Agent Responds to Office Letter Regarding Return of Fanny Bird525.66 KB
December 26, 1891 - January 4, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a copy of a letter from George LeRoy Brown, Acting U.S. Indian Agent for the Pine Ridge Agency, to the Office of Indian Affairs. In Brown's letter he provides an update and a character assessment on former Carlisle…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Former Student Experiences
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Agency Update on Former Students Living at the Pine Ridge Agency1.81 MB
December 29, 1891
Festus Pelone responds to letter from Thomas J. Morgan again requesting him to be allowed to return home. Pelone states that he has only ever gotten into trouble while on outing and that he has been at Carlisle eight years and now desires to…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pelone Reiterates Desire to be Returned Home851.95 KB
December 29, 1891
Richard Henry Pratt forwards expense voucher of W. P. Campbell incurred in the return of three runaway students.
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Topics: Students Running Away
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Pratt Forwards Expense Voucher in Return of Three Runaway Students524.43 KB
January 2, 1892
Richard Henry Pratt provides an update on the health of students for the first half of the year to the Office of Indian Affairs. He notes that there has only been one death during the school year and there have been very few serious illnesses.…
Repository: National Archives and Records Administration
Format: Letters/Correspondence
View Document: Update on the Health of Students During the First Half of the 1891-1892 Year536.17 KB