These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Joseph K. Griffis to have his daughter enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School.
Abbott, F. H.
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Nell C. Splitstone, children's editor of The People's Home Journal, asks the Department of the Interior for a complete record of former Superintendent Richard Henry Pratt's time at the Carlisle Indian School.
Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott informs Splitstone of Pratt's address and sends them the Report…
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Acting Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry A. M. Farrington informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they tested the cattle herd at the Carlisle Indian School for tuberculosis in January, 1913. Of 46 total cows, 34 were healthy. The remaining 12 were slaughtered in Harrisburg and postmortem examination confirmed the test results that…
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request by K. C. Steele, an American citizen, to enroll an acquaintance from the Six Nation Reserve in Brantford, Canada at the Carlisle Indian School to study dentistry. Steele's request is denied, as no Indian School in the United States teaches dentistry and because his acquaintance would…
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These materials include a request by Robert Bruce to have the government pay his transportation back home. Bruce wished to leave Carlisle early to help his father plant the wheat crop at their home in Montana.
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These materials include correspondence concerning a request to approve a check of Elizabeth La Vatta's.
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Supervisor of Indian Funds Benton informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott that $35,000 of Carlisle Indian School students' money is held in the Farmers Trust Company in Carlisle, and the school handles all business and all record-keeping of this money. Benton recommends that the students should have to keep an account book and…
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Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbott tells Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman to make a full report on all of the students who are leaving the school at the end of the academic year.
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Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman advises against abolishing the Teachers' Club during July and August because he does not believe it is a good idea for employees to cook their own meals in their room. Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs F. H. Abbot agrees with Friedman.
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These materials include a report on Fred Lookout and Julia Pryor, under the Osage Superintendency, who were both Carlisle Indian School alumni.
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Montreville Yuda to F. H. Abbott, Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to leave the Carlisle Indian School while remaining in the borough of Carlisle to work. School officials were opposed to this course of action, citing past difficulties with former students interfering with…
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These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.
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These materials include a request from William Reichert to enroll his son at the Carlisle Indian School. The request was forwarded to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by House Representative Scott Ferris of Oklahoma.
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Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to reinstate an evening study hour two nights a week in which students will do homework in the academic classrooms. In years past, it was four nights a week in the classroom, but last year it changed to four nights a week in the dormitories, which Friedman doesn't find to be as…
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The typed transcript of Montreville Yuda's testimony before the Joint Commission to Investigate Indian Affairs. At the time Yuda was working in Chambersburg, having enrolled at Carlisle in September 8, 1908 and been discharged from the school under uncertain circumstances on May 19, 1913.
Yuda first testifies regarding the circumstances…
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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, after Moses Friedman was suspended from duty. Lipps worked in the Department of the Interior for…