This document contains correspondence between Lyman B. Madison and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Frederick Walker's request to discharge from the United States Navy.
National Archives and Records Administration
![Frederick Walker's Request to be Released from the Navy Frederick Walker's Request to be Released from the Navy](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b002_f43_7999_0002.jpg?itok=-OT6PjQZ)
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Cato Sells replies to Henry G. Thomas, Secretary to Senator Robert L. Owen, regarding the request of Mrs. C. D. Markham for information on the American Indian. Sells provides some information about a publication about Geronimo, the reason for the return of the Carlisle Indian School to the War Department, and encloses the Annual Report for the…
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This material includes correspondence between Edward P. Thorpe and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merrit concerning Thorpe's desire to be formally discharged from the United States Navy.
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This material includes correspondence between Ned Wilnota and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Wilnota's request to be discharged from the Navy.
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These materials include an inquiry into the enrollment and employment status of William Henry "Lonestar" Dietz at Chilocco and Carlisle. The Office of Indian Affairs was asked to provide records about Dietz to clarify Dietz's citizenship, after he claimed exemption to the draft for the First World War based on his Indian heritage.
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Inquiry from Charles Samuel to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding having an outing student placed at his home.
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W. H. Bowers requests assistance from the Office of Indian Affairs in securing an outing student from the Carlisle Indian School following the school's closure.
![Academic Record of Charles Ape-Kaum Academic Record of Charles Ape-Kaum](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b030_f36_00_0002.jpg?itok=XlmLdtgW)
These materials include correspondence regarding the academic record of Charles Ape-Kaum following his discharge of the Navy and prior to taking up his studies again at the Central State Normal School in Edmond, Oklahoma.
![Request for Information on the Carlisle Indian School and Indian Schools in Connecticut Request for Information on the Carlisle Indian School and Indian Schools in Connecticut](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b030_f41_36353_0002.jpg?itok=Jfkgdkqr)
Minnie Williams, who is "partly of Indian descent," asks Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells if there are any Indian schools in Connecticut and for information on the Carlisle Indian School. Sells informs Williams that there aren't any Indian schools in Connecticut and that Carlisle closed in 1918 and was converted to a military hospital…
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This document contains correspondence between Wesley Aaron and Assistant Commissioner E. B. Merritt concerning Aaron's desire to leave the Navy.
![Attempt to Purchase Land in Baltimore by Joseph S. Sheehan Attempt to Purchase Land in Baltimore by Joseph S. Sheehan](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b003_f22_54910_0005.jpg?itok=iTwdyo8v)
These materials include correspondence regarding an attempt by Alaskan student Joseph S. Sheehan to purchase land in Baltimore.
![Company's Desire to be Paid for Shipment of Books received after School Closure Company's Desire to be Paid for Shipment of Books received after School Closure](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b016_f09_81006_0005.jpg?itok=uzJGQbEb)
The Arthur H. Clark Company informs the Commissioner of Indian Affairs that they shipped a set of Volume 2 of "American Indian, as Slave-Holders, Secessionists, and During the Reconstruction" to the Carlisle Indian School and that they have not been paid because the school is closed.
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt asks the…
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request of John Curtis, of the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, regarding the disposition of students following the closing of the Carlisle Indian School.
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Inquiry from A. Reist Rutt regarding continuing the outing program following the closure of the Carlisle Indian School.
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These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by R. T. Hunter seeking information about Leroy Fitswal during his time at Carlisle.
![Inquiry About Re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School Inquiry About Re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b030_f44_103195_0003.jpg?itok=JR-cm6bm)
These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Edwin C. Allen about re-enrolling at the Carlisle Indian School after hearing rumors that the School was being reopened.
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These materials include correspondence regarding a request by J. W. Asher to enter the Carlisle Indian School following its closing.
![Personnel File of Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge and Superintendent Personnel File of Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge and Superintendent](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_1344A_b001_LippsO_0067.jpg?itok=ch6ArpAh)
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…
![Request to Return Home of Daisy Chase Request to Return Home of Daisy Chase](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b030_f45_25345_0007.jpg?itok=kI9gXlei)
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Daisy Chase to her home in Federal Dam, Minnesota following a nursing program in Massachusetts and an outing with Mary E. Way of Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Way requests funds to cover Chase's travel costs.
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These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Nurses for the course of study pursued by Marie Garlow while she was a student at Carlisle.
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These materials include correspondence regarding an inquiry by Oscar Nateroak for information about whether the Carlisle Arrow is still being published. Nateroak also provides information about Alaska and his own health.
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George D. Clark asks the Department of Indian Affairs if the Carlisle Indian School is still in operation, and if it's not, what kind of arrangements he could make with schools in the west. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Clark that Carlisle is closed and the Federal Government has no responsibility for educating…
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These materials contain correspondence regarding a request from the Society of American Indians for a list of ex-students from Carlisle.
![Inquiry About Closure of Carlisle Indian School by Eva Gould Metzger Inquiry About Closure of Carlisle Indian School by Eva Gould Metzger](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_CCF_b004_f06_105098_0003.jpg?itok=8cby5mNz)
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Eva Gould Metzger about whether and why the Carlisle Indian School was closed.
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These materials include letters from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to former Carlisle Indian School employees regarding the origins of some artifacts from the school. The artifacts, including a beaded buckskin coat, an old gun, a model of a three-masted ship, and a model of a battleship, could not be positively identified by the employees.