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Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs regarding a $5,000 donation from sisters Mary P. and Eliza O. Ropes in 1908. He states that the money was given to former Superintendent Moses Friedman, who gave the money to a board of volunteer trustees. Mr. Weitzel and Mr. Ray, two…

These materials primarily consist of correspondence between the Office of Indian Affairs and the U. S. Department of Justice, in particular an Assistant Attorney General Charles Warren. In this correspondence, officials discuss whether or not former Superintendent Moses Friedman and former Chief Clerk Siceni Nori should be tried in a federal…

Two memos between government officials which discuss what laws or court cases are relevant to the investigation into the mishandling of money of the students of Carlisle. These were compiled in the wake of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle where it was discovered that certain funds deposited for students for transportation were…

A list of documents related to the charges against Moses Friedman and Siceni J. Nori in the aftermath of the 1914 Congressional Investigation at Carlisle as prepared by the Department of Justice. 

This document contains correspondence concerning the appendicitis case of Sarah Parkhurst. This includes a medical bill. 

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

Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt informs Chief Special Officer Henry A. Larson that Carlisle Indian School Supervisor Lipps would like to commissioner one of his school employees, Edward Corbett, as a deputy. Lipps would like Corbett to be tasked with suppressing the sale of liquor to Indian students in the East. Merritt notes that at…

These materials include a request from Superintendent Kelsey of the Union Agency to have a police officer escort three boys from Carlisle to Oklahoma.

Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $100.00 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" fund for the payment of incidental expenses incurred in the administration of the school. A few weeks later, he calls attention to his request. A few months after that, Lipps requests authority for a $2.80 expenditure paid for from the…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll Hampton Thomas, a member of the Choctaw Nation, who sought an exemption to enroll due to being over the age of 21.

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 correspondence and a circular internal to the Carlisle Indian School regarding economy and waste in the school's industrial departments.

These materials include a request by D. H. McMillan to be granted an exception in order to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School as a student over the age of 21. The request was denied as McMillan was from Robeson County, North Carolina in addition to his age.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Dora B. McCauley that her brother Eugene McCauley be granted a release from Carlisle in order to take up stenographic work at the Haskell Institute in Lawrence, Kansas. Eugene McCauley reportedly ran away from Carlisle after disagreements with Disciplinarian Wallace Denny.

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.

These materials include correspondence regarding the education of members of the Cherokee Nation from Robeson County, North Carolina.

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to re-enroll Charles Pratt, whose term of enrollment had expired, through the remainder of the school year or until a position of baker in the Indian Service became open.

Carlisle Indian School Physician Dr. Walter Rendtorff informs Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps that he has found no evidence of communicable diseases among school employees. Lipps forwards Rendtorff's report the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt acknowledges the report's findings.

A contractual agreement is made between Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School and Robert Thompson for Thompson to supply the school with coal. 

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 include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy in Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The headmaster of the Keewatin Academy claimed the Carlisle Indian School administration and Coach Glenn "Pop" Warner were threatening to blackmail the Academy into releasing Guyon so he could continue to play…

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to waive the requirement that Bud Walker pay for his own transportation to and tuition at the Carlisle Indian School.

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the authority to pay a fee for recovering James Running Hawk.

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.