An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1881, containing the second annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The lengthy report includes discussions of curriculum, student recruitment, the school's campus, the success of the sending students on…
Zotom
1881
Format:
Book
Topics:
Annual Reports, Enrollment Statistics, Student Illness, Industrial Training - General, Music Instruction, Students on Outings, Outing Patrons, Discipline, Buildings and Grounds, Donations and Bequests to the School, County and State Fairs, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Students Writing Home, Indian Prisoners at St. Augustine, FL, Industrial Program Statistics, Student Wages, Student Savings Accounts, Annual Examinations
Repository:
Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
September 1881
Page one opened with a poem by E.G.P. and the story of the Great Turtle, which was based on the arrival of a Spanish Ship. There was also a piece on the trouble that Billy Cornipachio faced, which included the opposition of his people to his education. Page two had a piece about visiting chiefs and on three prisoners from the Fort in San Marco…
Format:
Newspapers
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
May 9, 1881
Richard Henry Pratt writes to seek authority to pay to send home three former prisoners who remained east for their education. The sponsor of Paul Zotom and David Oakerhater had them trained in agriculture as well as being ordained as deacons in the Episcopal Church while studying in Paris Hill, New York and is now proposing to build chapels at…
Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration