House, J. F.

This folder includes documents about Edwin Schanandore's time as a government employee (specifically in the Indian Service). The folder was compiled by Washington DC Bureau of Indian Affairs staff. Schanandore attended Carlisle and for almost two years worked as a baker (August 1892-June 1894). This folder though, focuses on the second half of…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by G. Pressly Houk to have his daughter, Eleanor Houk, enrolled at the Carlisle Indian School despite being under age. Houk, a former Carlisle student himself, was directed to apply to the Rapid City School in South Dakota.

This document contains correspondence about new policies encouraging vocational nursing training for female students in Indian schools. Included is an extensive pamphlet from the professional nursing training program at Fort Dearborn Hospital, Circular letters ordering the transfer of all students interested in nursing training to the Carlisle…