Richard Henry Pratt requests to take a party of students from Cherokee, North Carolina to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt notes that the local boarding school is overcrowded and there is great interest among students and parents to be educated at Carlisle.
Pratt further discusses that it would be inadvisable to bring the Alabama…
Robert Shaw Oliver, Acting Secretary of War, returns papers related to the Carlisle Indian School preparing students for the United States Cavalry. Included are William A. Mercer's original plan along with comments by the Office of Indian Affairs and a final ruling by the Acting Judge-Advocate General of the Army.
Also included is…