Sells, Cato

Former Carlisle Indian School student Harry West asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells to appoint him as the Mechanical Drawing Teacher at the school. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke informs West that the position has been abolished, so they cannot consider his application

Annie Fuller recommends that Commissioner Cato Sells appoints Dr. Thomas Jessie Jones as Superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Fuller that he will consider Jones.

These materials include a request by Representative Philip P. Campbell for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells writes to Warner Thompson regarding the death of Annie S. Ely, the former head of the Outing Department at the Carlisle Indian School. Commissioner Sells praises Ely's record of nearly 30 years in that department.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps to change admission rules for students from the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma. Prior to Lipps request, students from these Nations were required to pay both tuition and transportation. The revision allowed students with financial need to attend…

Representative A. Mitchell Palmer recommends Carnegie Technical School Professor J. H. Nolen to be teacher of an upcoming practical building course at the Carlisle Indian School. 

Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells informs Palmer that the creation of the position is not official yet, and if it does become official, appointments…

These materials include correspondence on the topic of industry, which arose from the 1914 Lake Mohonk Conference.

These materials include a request by H. M. Lippincott, Secretary of the General Alumni Association of the University of Pennsylvania, for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation into the Carlisle Indian School.

These materials include a request by Representative J. Washington Logue for a copy of the final report of the 1914 Congressional Investigation of the Carlisle Indian School.

Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke informs Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps that they have just sent two color maps of the parts of Europe that are in conflict and suggests hanging them up in frames and using pins to mark different points of interest.

Commissioner Cato Sells tells…

These materials include correspondence related to recommendations made by Emma D. Goulette, Vice-President on Education for The Society of American Indians. Goulette, in response to the 1914 Congressional investigation of the Carlisle Indian School, suggested that better teachers, prepared with college education instead of qualified through the…

These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint against Richard Kesetta as a child. Further information is given about the circumstances of how Kesetta came to be a student at Carlisle.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request for enrollment by Samuel White Bear, as well as a request for executive clemency for a court-imposed fine.

These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint made by J. Brown Kelly, a farmer with land next to the Carlisle School, against students who were vandalizing his property.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll four applicants living near Charenton, Louisiana. Superintendent Lipps was informed that he should look into the individual merits of each case and was given permission to enroll them upon his discretion.

These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Andrew Goforth to his guardian that Carlisle was feeding him insufficiently and that he wanted to leave. Goforth's complaint is linked to homesickness by Carlisle's officials.

Correspondence regarding a request by the Amoskeag Textile Club for an additional $500 refund from the Carlisle Indian School Athletic Fund from a game played between the school and Holy Cross College in 1914.

These materials include correspondence regarding the return of Beulah Logan from her outing home to Carlisle.

These materials include a complaint from local Carlisle businessman John H. Lau against Charles H. Carns, the painter at the Carlisle Indian School. Lau, of the local carriage-maker E. A. Lau and Sons, claimed that Carns was inappropriately undercutting his carriage-painting costs. After investigation, Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian…

Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that he thinks he may have developed a cure for tuberculosis, which he has used on David Belin and two others. He requests to give it a trial at the Fort Lapwai and Toledo sanitariums. 

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt tells Rendtorff to…

Cato Sells requests the Carlisle Indian School print 1000 copies of the Advance Statement of Annual Report for 1914 as quickly as possible. Sells additionally notes corrections to be made to the Report.

These materials include correspondence regarding requests from Andrew F. Solomon to stay at Carlisle or to enter Haskell to obtain an education. 

These materials contain correspondence regarding the formation of a Boy Scout troop at Carlisle. This is considered the first Native American scouting troop.

This document contains correspondence concerning the enrollment of Ben Powell and Charles Williams at Haskell Institute. Both had previously been enrolled at Carlisle. Also included are documents concerning the requirements placed upon student athletes. 

Correspondence and investigative material related to a charge that Oscar H. Lipps made a sale of Indian allotments in the Nez Perce reservation for personal gain. The investigation concluded that Lipps was innocent.