Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to spend $1,000 from the "Indian School, Transportation 1912" account to capture and return runaway students and deserters. Second Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Hauke denies Friedman's request because he wants Friedman to make individual requests instead.
Discipline
June 10-30, 1911
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September 28, 1911 - October 16, 1911
This document contains correspondence regarding an anonymous letter that was sent complaining of the conditions at the guardhouse, the hospital, and the school farm. The complaint discusses the treatment of Wesley Two Moons, who later dies at the school.
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January 5 - 16, 1912
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Tillie Catfish.
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January 23, 1912 - March 6, 1912
These materials include an excerpt of Charles F. Peirce's inspection report of January 1912, and Superintendent Moses Friedman's responses to his recommendations. Friedman rejected many of Peirce's recommendations regarding the chain of authority and command at the school. Other recommendations, focused on industrial curricula and student…
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May 21, 1913 - June 13, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Agnes Bartholomeau and Edith Rainey.
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June 6, 1913
These materials include a typed and hand-written copy of a letter from J. F. Murray, praising the Carlisle Indian School. Murray discusses numerous topics, including Carlisle's assimilationist mission, appropriations and finances, discipline, local reactions to the school, and the school's management.
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October 1 - November 6, 1913
Rev. Mark E. Stock, the Catholic priest whose church Carlisle students attend, asks Superintendent Moses Friedman to allow female students to walk to his church without a chaperone or to assign a chaperone for them.
Friedman forwards Stock's letter to Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells, stating that it would be unsafe to send the…
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November 22, 1913 - December 10, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return Paul Jones to his home in Pendleton, Oregon from Carlisle.
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November 22, 1913 - December 13, 1913
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Ethel Williams.
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December 1, 1913 - May 1, 1914
These materials include legal documents and correspondence regarding charges filed against Superintendent Moses Friedman after an inspection and investigation of the Carlisle Indian School. Included in the documents are the official charges against Friedman, his answers to those charges, correspondence regarding the charges, and the…
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December 31, 1913 - January 27, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Louis Schweigman to his home. Schweigman complained that he was returned to his home without warning. Superintendent Moses Friedman denied the claim, and noted Schweigman's temporary enrollment status. Friedman also complained to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the Principal…
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January 27, 1914 - February 6, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return home Charles Kelsey.
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March 20, 1914 - May 15, 1914
These materials concern the return home and transportation costs of Earl Armstrong.
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April 6-10, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding either transfer or return home Grover Allen, John Plenty, and John Martin.
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May 4, 1914 - October 25, 1918
These materials include correspondence and legal documents regarding the 1914 internal and Congressional investigations into Superintendent Moses Friedman and Chief Clerk Siceni J. Nori of the Carlisle Indian School. Included is copied and original correspondence regarding the resignation of Friedman and Nori, legal discussions regarding…
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September 21, 1914 - October 5, 1914
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.
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November 14, 1914 - December 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the return of Manuel Romero to the Pine Ridge Agency and who should be responsible for paying the transportation costs.
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December 24, 1914 - January 9, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the return home of Frank Young Eagle, Charles Wilson, George Roberts, and Eustace Edwards in January 1915.
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January 5-18, 1915
Reginald Oshkosh appeals to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to prevent the discharge for cause of his son, Roland Oshkosh, from Carlisle.
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February 17, 1915 - July 26, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the suggestion of Superintendent Lipps to start a reformatory school for the Indian Service. Lipps states that students should not be sent to Carlisle when they have access to similar education near their home or when they have an unsatisfactory disciplinary record. Lipps also states that…
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March 8, 1915 - May 11, 1915
These materials include numerous suggestions from Oscar Hiram Lipps and Dennison Wheelock regarding changes that should be made to policy and staff at the Carlisle Indian School. Lipps' suggestions focus on disciplinary measures, the end of preferential treatment for athletes, and staff changes. Lipps also requests that a superintendent for…
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March 26, 1915
These materials include a memorandum about reforms made to Carlisle Indian School policies by Supervisor Oscar Hiram Lipps in response to a 1914 Congressional investigation. The outlined reforms included curtailing the outing program, changing the courses of study, standardizing disciplinary measures, increasing arrests of local bootleggers,…
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April 29, 1915 - May 12, 1915
These materials contain correspondence regarding the release of Hannah Kennedy from the Sleighton Farm reformatory school for girls into the care of Mary T. Scheurman.
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May 1, 1915
These materials include an inspection report of J. H. Dortch for his visit to the Carlisle Indian School. His report includes discussions of new staff, the school's physical plant and curriculum, and continued disciplinary changes being enacted under Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps.
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May 3-12, 1915
These materials include a newspaper clipping, an internal circular order, and correspondence regarding an article in the Carlisle Herald regarding the discipline of male and female students of the Carlisle Indian School, who reportedly visited the east end of the town for parties with local residents. Superintendent Lipps confirmed to…
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