These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the request of James Cook to have his son Isaac Cook returned home from the Carlisle Indian School. Superintendent Moses Friedman initially sought to deny the request based on a claim that Isaac Cook desired to remain at the school. Friedman was overruled by the Office of…
Abbott, F. H.
May 26, 1911 - November 3, 1911
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
May 29, 1911 - June 20, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by J. R. Frye to enroll in the Carlisle Indian School. Frye was attending the Henry Kendall College in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and his request was denied due to his access to public schools.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
May 29, 1911 - June 19, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Robert J. Tahamont to remain at the Carlisle Indian School past his term of enrollment in order gain more experience in the carpenter trade by assisting the school in building in a plumber shop.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 15 - July 21, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John B. Farr to remain at the Carlisle Indian School rather than being sent home for living near a public school. Farr desired to take a mathematics course at Conway Hall after studying at the office of an architect in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Farr hoped to further study…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 21, 1911 - May 29, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Katie Ray, a member of the Catawba Nation, in the Carlisle Indian School. Ray's request was denied because the Catawba Nation had not recently received assistance in educating its youth from the Federal Government.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 28, 1911 - August 5, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Mitchell Laughing to have his son John Laughing returned home from Carlisle. The request was denied on account of John's age and his stated desire to remain at the school on the outing program.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
June 29, 1911 - August 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry into the exclusion of Willard Comstock from the Carlisle Indian School due to his heritage and family's wealth.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 6, 1911 - September 30, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Rev. Sherman Coolidge to have his daughter Virginia Coolidge enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School. Coolidge required an exception from the Office of Indian Schools due to her young age.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 10, 1911 - August 11, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Angus Splicer to return to the Carlisle Indian School, after being declared ineligible the year before, in order to continue his education at Conway Hall.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 13 - December 16, 1911
Noting heavy criticism from H. B. Peairs and Charles F. Pierce, Superintendent Moses Friedman asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine if he wants Carlisle to continue its Native Indian Arts department, which was started February 1, 1906.
Before making a decision, Valentine asks Friedman for a detailed report on the department…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
July 19, 1911 - August 2, 1911
These materials include correspondence and pamphlets related to circular orders and regulations in force at the Carlisle Indian School under Superintendent Moses Friedman. Friedman forwarded the documents to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for approval. The forwarded documents include a blank Pupil's Health Report, the Outline of Course for…
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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
August 10, 1911 - September 26, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to allow Adeline Boutang remain at the home of Marie A. Craighead under the outing system to continue nursing Craighead's mother. Boutang was training to be a nurse and had spent two years learning in the school hospital.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 10 - 18, 1911
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Walter Standing Elk to the Carlisle Indian School.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 15, 1911 - April 3, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Samuel Sixkiller enroll his nephew Raymond Ross at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was denied as Ross was a member of the Cherokee Nation and not eligible to receive government assistance.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
August 18, 1911 - September 9, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Louise Jones to have her daughter Minnie Jones visit home on vacation, pending funds for her transportation.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
October 23 - December 7, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to allow May Wheelock to return to the Carlisle Indian School to graduate with the Class of 1913. Wheelock's request was granted after being initially denied due to being over the age of 21 when she attempted to return.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 11, 1911 - January 16, 1912
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by John McInnis to be released from the Carlisle Indian School. McInnis wished to work at his trade as a shoe and harness maker to support his mother and brother.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
November 24, 1911 - December 12, 1911
Supervisor in Charge of Indian Schools H. B. Peairs requests that the Indian School superintendents send him a list of all vacant school positions and salaries because he has received complaints that it is difficult to fill them. Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs Peairs that he has no issues filling open positions.…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 6 - December 22, 1911
Daniel W. White, the Department of the Interior Eye and Trachoma Expert, asks Carlisle Indian School Surgeon in Charge Dr. A. R. Allen to request, through Superintendent Friedman, to send White to Carlisle after the holidays. Allen forwards White's letter to Friedman. Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send White to the…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
December 12, 1911 - January 6, 1912
This material includes information regarding a noncompetitive engineer examination for Maxie Luce.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 16, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of students from the Five Civilized Tribes. Anna Melton inquired about the expenses she had incurred and various discrepancies in how students are charged.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 16, 1911
These materials include correspondence regarding an application blank of Charles King. The blank was being sent to the Carlisle Indian School so it could be stored in their files.
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
December 21, 1911 - January 22, 1912
Thomas B. Mills informs Senator Isaac Stephenson that a 1/8 Chippewa girl would like to attend the Carlisle Indian School and asks him to secure information that would help her to enroll. Stephenson forwards the letter to the Commissioner of Education. Acting Commissioner of Education L. A. Kalbach forwards the letter to the Commissioner of…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 4 - February 1, 1912
These materials include correspondence, a supplies list, and a survey of unserviceable materials at the Carlisle Indian School. Some of the condemned materials were approved for sale on the open market.
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Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
January 5 - 16, 1912
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration