Arden R. Smith, U.S. Indian Agent for the Crow Agency, requests the Indian Affairs Office to send transportation for Crow students from St. Paul to Carlisle.
National Archives and Records Administration
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![Report on the Northern Arapaho Students from Wyoming Report on the Northern Arapaho Students from Wyoming](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0123_02707_0006.jpg?itok=E6rjecj6)
Carlisle School physician O. G. Given provides a report on the health of some of the remaining Northern Arapaho students at Carlisle and recommends returning four boys to their homes. Richard Henry Pratt endorses this recommendation and asks for authority to cover the expense for returning the students to their homes.
![Proposal for Increased Appropriation from Osage Fund Proposal for Increased Appropriation from Osage Fund](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0124_03036_0001.jpg?itok=hH7GNrdK)
Richard Henry Pratt provides the Indian Affairs Office with proposed text for receiving funds for educating Osage students from the Osage trust fund. Pratt notes that if he does not receive the funds for the Osage then he can place more students on outing to reduce costs for running the school.
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Richard Henry Pratt forwards for approval the lease agreement between the Carlisle Indian School and Samuel K. Humrich for a 225 acre farm beginning on February 17, 1883.
Henry Morgan Teller, Secretary of the Interior, approves the lease.
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H. J. Armstrong, U.S. Indian Agent for the Crow Agency, sends a telegraph that he cannot send the full allotment of Crow students to Carlisle at present. Inquires if he can send twelve students now and the remainder at a later date.
![Departure of Eight Crow Students for Carlisle Departure of Eight Crow Students for Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0126_04151_0001.jpg?itok=MU6eSsme)
H. J. Armstrong, U.S. Indian Agent for the Crow Agency, reports that he has sent eight Crow boys to Carlisle under escort of Special U.S. Indian Agent Arden Smith. Armstrong indicates that he was unable to secure any girls to go to Carlisle but will try again in the Spring.
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These materials include a cover letter and a Descriptive Statement of Pupils regarding 8 children transferred to the Carlisle Indian School from the Crow Agency in Montana. The Descriptive Statement indicates that two female children initially intended for transfer refused to go with the rest of the group.
![Itemized Statement of John Robinson for Escorting Students to Carlisle Itemized Statement of John Robinson for Escorting Students to Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0125_03953_0001.jpg?itok=SRdGFSEN)
Itemized statement from John Robinson in assisting Marianna Burgess in escorting 68 Sioux students from the Pine Ridge and Rosebud Agencies to Carlisle.
![Special Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1883 Special Estimate of Funds, First Quarter 1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0128_04954_0001.jpg?itok=F3Yle5cE)
Richard Henry Pratt submits a "Special" Estimate of Funds form for $1045 for support of Indian school to purchase 200 tons of coal.
![Physician Report of Newly Arrived Crow Students in 1883 Physician Report of Newly Arrived Crow Students in 1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0128_05043_0004.jpg?itok=SVoFXRhc)
Carlisle Indian School physician O. G. Given provides a report on the recently arrived Crow students from Carlisle, several of whom should be sent back. As a result of the report Pratt recommends including additional agency health examinations.
![Request to Enroll Otwin James Request to Enroll Otwin James](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0129_05689_0003.jpg?itok=JpbpnahH)
Lizzie Spence, a teacher at the Kaw Agency Boarding School, requests the Carlisle Indian School enroll Otwin James who is a student at the school. Richard Henry Pratt endorses the recommendation to the Indian Affairs Office.
![Request to Return Katie La Croix to Her Home Request to Return Katie La Croix to Her Home](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0129_05637_0003.jpg?itok=UchP-E09)
Request to return Katie La Croix to her home due to a pulmonary illness with the U.S. Indian Agent for the Sisseton Agency when he returns from Washington D.C.
![Request to Enroll Henry Roman Nose for Six Months Request to Enroll Henry Roman Nose for Six Months](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0129_05677_0001.jpg?itok=4zaqx61Q)
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to allow Henry Roman Nose to travel to Carlisle at no expense to the government to spend six months at Carlisle learning the tinsmithing trade.
![Request to Return Alfred Brown and Clement Black Deer Home Request to Return Alfred Brown and Clement Black Deer Home](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0130_05871_0002.jpg?itok=RnJPU0u5)
Richard Henry Pratt writes that the father of Alfred Brown requests his son be sent home in order to see him due to his illness. Pratt also notes that Clement Black Deer is ill and will require some time to recover and may benefit from being sent home as well.
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Richard Henry Pratt provides a list of students to be returned to their homes at the end of their enrollment terms. Pratt notes that many of these students have expressed a desire to remain and notes that agents should attempt to secure permission from their parents for their children to remain. Pratt notes many students who were expected to…
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Request to send George Walker home. Walker had remained at the Carlisle Indian School after this term of enrollment was up at the behest of the Sisseton Indian agent to further learn the harness making trade prior to taking over the agency shop. Pratt recommends returning Walker to his home when the agent is visiting Carlisle.
![Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Second Quarter 1883 Estimate of Funds and Regular Employee Pay, Second Quarter 1883](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0131_06270_c2071.jpg?itok=YN50VgS_)
Estimate of funds for the second quarter of 1883 amounting to $9,674.65 for support of the school. Richard H. Pratt also requests additional funds amounting to $5,166.26 for regular employee pay.
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Richard Henry Pratt returns to the Indian Affairs Office a letter from U.S. Indian Agent H. J. Armstrong from the Crow Agency. Pratt recommends returning Hears Fire and Steals the Bear to their home due to illness.
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Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to return to their homes Tommie McGillycuddy and Oliver Spotted Tail due to tuberculous infections. As a result of their conditions Pratt notes that they will need an escort to accompany them on their way home.
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Lewellyn E. Woodin, U.S. Indian Agent for the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, notes that the mother of Harriet Mary Elder (here Harriet May) requests her daughter to be sent home from Carlisle. Woodin writes that the mother is part of a party going from the Oakland Reservation to Idaho and wants her daughter to accompany her.
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Lewellyn E. Woodin, U.S. Indian Agent for the Ponca, Pawnee, and Otoe Agency, provides the answers of the parents whose children's terms are set to expire regarding extending their terms at Carlisle.
![Request to Send Home Fannie Merrick and Mary Tyndall Request to Send Home Fannie Merrick and Mary Tyndall](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0135_08134_0002.jpg?itok=og9yV-ww)
Richard Henry Pratt requests to send home Fannie Merrick and Mary Tyndall. Pratt notes that Alice C. Fletcher is set to visit the Omaha reservation and can escort the two students back.
![Request to Enroll 12 Pawnee Students at Carlisle Request to Enroll 12 Pawnee Students at Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0138_09215_0005.jpg?itok=YBaxwECo)
Richard Henry Pratt forwards a letter from L. D. Davis, Superintendent of the Indian Boarding School at the Pawnee Agency, regarding sending twelve Pawnee students to Carlisle. Davis notes that many of the older students desire to go to Carlisle because some of their former classmates are at Carlisle and they have a correspondence.
Pratt…
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Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to return Jane Freeman, a member of the Creek Nation, to her home due to pulmonary trouble.
![Pawnee Students Request to be Enrolled in Carlisle Pawnee Students Request to be Enrolled in Carlisle](/sites/default/files/styles/views_taxonomy/public/image-document/NARA_RG75_91_b0140_10417_0018.jpg?itok=9xgeyYo9)
L. D. Davis, the Superintendent of the Pawnee Boarding School, writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding sending additional boys to the Carlisle Indian School. Davis includes a number of written requests from students asking to attend the Carlisle Indian School.