Secretary of War Alex Ramsey transmits to Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz a report from Lieutenant E. T. C. Richmond indicating that the transfer of the Carlisle Barracks from the War Department to the Interior was completed on January 6, 1880 and correspondence regarding said transfer. Also attached is an official order from Major…
1880-1889
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Financial
This volume of Statements of Receipts and Disbursements, which is also labeled "Cash Books," covers the period from July 1, 1886 to June 30, 1894. The entries for receipts and for disbursements are on facing pages and are arranged chronologically. Individual entries for receipts include…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending September 30, 1886. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending December 31, 1886. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending March 31, 1887. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information about…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending June 30, 1887. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information about…
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Enrollment
This volume of Daily Morning Reports covers enrollment at the school between July 1887 and July 1891. The daily reports record information about the number of students present, the number of students absent, and the reasons for absences. Some entries include remarks about individual…
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Employment
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1887, containing a table of Indian School Employees for the Carlisle Indian Training School. The table includes employee name, position, service start and end dates…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending September 30, 1887. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending December 31, 1887. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information…
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Enrollment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending March 31, 1888. Quarterly School Reports include lists of all currently enrolled and recently discharged students as well as information about…
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Employment
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1888, containing a table of Indian School Employees for the Carlisle Indian Training School. The table includes employee name, position, service start and end dates…
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Enrollment
The Historical Record section of this Registers of Pupils lists students who attended the school between 1889 and 1894. This list, which appears on pages 193 through 274 of this register, has entries for 568 students. Most entries include the student's name, their Nation, age,…
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Employment
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1889, containing a table of Indian School Employees for the Carlisle Indian Training School. The table includes employee name, position, service start and end dates…
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Employment
Report of the Carlisle Indian School, submitted quarterly to the Bureau of Indian Affairs by the School Superintendent, for the quarter ending September 30, 1891. Quarterly Report of School Employees include lists of all employees as well as information about their position, period of service,…
August 25, 1879 - January 7, 1880
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 1, 1879
A card which records Richard Henry Pratt's appointment as Superintendent of an "Industrial School for Indians at Carlisle, Pa." Another note on the card indicates that Pratt's appointment was "transferred from the Appointment Division to the Indian Division" in December of 1888.
A page that accompanies this card indicates that Pratt's…
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December 29, 1879 - January 3, 1880
R. L. Sibbet, a citizen of Carlisle, asks why the Carlisle Indian School is employing a homeopathic physician instead of a doctor that practices "rational medicine."
Note: This item was copied from U.S. National Archives microfilm reels (M234), which were filmed from the original documents found in Record Group 75, Entry 79, "Letters…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 1, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt acknowledges receipt of a Milburn wagon. A note indicates that this is a copy of the original receipt.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
January 2, 1880
Instructions from Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt sent to Indian Agent S. A. Russell at the Mescalaro Agency to pursue gathering "six to ten boys" from the (Apache) Mescalero Tribe to send to the Carlisle Indian School or Hampton, "provided you can obtain the consent of the parents." Hayt instructed Russell to focus on selecting…
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January 2, 1880
Comptroller W. W. Lipton refers to an account in favor of the War Department for $630.78 for medical and hospital supplies transferred to the Interior Department as part of the transfer of the Carlisle Barracks from the War to Interior to establish the Carlisle Indian School. Lipton states that he has no evidence that the transfer of medical…
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January 4, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt forwards to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs a letter from Olive Roberts, requesting employment as a teacher at the Carlisle Indian School. Roberts states that they previously ran the Crow Creek boarding school in Dakota. Pratt requests more information about Roberts, and notes that many of his teachers are giving up…
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January 5, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt telegrams the Commissioner of Indian Affairs asking for permission to come to Washington that day to discuss school matters, including a farm and industrial training.
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January 8-10, 1880
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Ezra A. Hayt sends Lieutenant Richard H. Pratt a six-month supply of two dozen different blank administrative forms used by the United States Indian Affairs division of the Department of the Interior. Pratt acknowledges the receipt of the stationary.
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January 10, 1880
Letter from Pratt to Rev. A. H. Donaldson at Fort Defiance, Arizona, stating that he welcomes Navajo students at the school. He describes the religious affiliations of the staff and the role of religion at the school.
This material is from the Richard Henry Pratt papers, donated by his family to Yale University in 1959 and 1976.…
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Letters/Correspondence
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Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
January 10, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt reports that the Rosebud delegation that visited Carlisle consumed 1,103 pounds of beef during their visit.
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