Richard Henry Pratt informs Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. E. Trowbridge that he would like students to have outings on farms located in Berkshire and Hampshire counties in Massachusetts. According to Pratt's plan, the Bureau of Indian Affairs would pay for the students' transit while students would pay for their food and washing expenses.…
Outing Program Administration
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Entries in the Register of Applications For Student Workers include the applicant's name, their address, date of application, the date when work was required, and the type of work (such as farming). Some entries also include the name and address of applicants' references, names of…
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The Outing section of this Register of Pupils lists those students who went on outings while at the school between the years 1890 and 1899. This outing section runs from page 84 through page 143 of the register. The list of outings includes the name of the student, their nation, the…
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Outings
The Outing section of this Register of Pupils lists those students who went on outings while at the school between the years 1899 and 1900. This outing section runs from page 84 through page 124 of the register. The list of outings includes the name of the student, their nation, the…
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The Registers of "Outings" includes entries with students' name, the date of placement or leaving the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to school, and occasionally other information. Volume 4 has the records for boys between 1908 and 1917 and…
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The Registers of Outings include entries with students' name, the date of placement or departing the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to the school, and occasionally other information. Volume 2 has the records for girls between 1909 and 1915 and…
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Outings
The Registers of "Outings" includes entries with students' name, the date of placement or leaving the school, the patron's name and their address, the date a student returned to school, and occasionally other information. Volume 3 has the records for girls between 1909 and 1918 and…
June 15, 1880
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June 24, 1880
Richard Henry Pratt asks Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. J. Brooks if he will accept his request to place a party of students in Massachusetts for the summer.
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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December 13, 1880
Alexander Hyde writes to Secretary of the Interior Carl Schurz about his experience as an outing host for three Carlisle Indian School students, Lulu, Stephen, and Frank, in the Summer of 1880. Hyde states that he heard about outing from his daughter, Mary R. Hyde, who works as a girl's matron at Carlisle and that he enjoyed his time as a host…
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July 28, 1881
Richard Henry Pratt requests that he be allowed to extend the outings of certain students until the winter in order to allow them to attend the country schools located near their patrons.
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August 14, 1882
Richard Henry Pratt provides a report on the outing system for the Summer of 1882. Pratt notes that he placed 85 students in homes for the Summer and that he was able to secure transportation costs from patrons as well as a salary for the student. Pratt ends by requesting the ability to visit students who remain on outing over the fall.
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February 13, 1883
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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July 15, 1883
Richard Henry Pratt requests permission to visit students on outing in order to determine how students are doing and whether they should be able to remain during the winter in order to attend local public schools. Pratt also requests authority to pay for the transportation expenses of certain students on outing to return to the school. …
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October 14, 1886
Richard Henry Pratt responds to a letter from Secretary of the Interior Lucius Q. C. Lamar regarding sending children and young adults at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Florida to the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt provides details on the number of students that can be accommodated at Carlisle through temporary shelters and through sending students…
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June 4, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt details finances to the Office of Indian Affairs regarding returning students to their homes.
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September 5, 1887
Richard Henry Pratt seeks authority to pay expenses of agents visiting pupils on farms and in families. Pratt notes that the cost will be $300 and the funds are already to his credit.
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April 13, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt inquires from the Office of Indian Affairs if he can furnish outing patrons with penalty envelopes for them to mail back outing reports on Carlisle Indian School students. Pratt notes that due to the increase in outing students covering the postage of these reports has become a large expense which could be mitigated through…
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July 9, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend money allowing Carlisle Indian School staff to visit outing students during the 1889 fiscal year.
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October 23, 1888
Richard Henry Pratt notes that with the completion of the new school building the Carlisle Indian School can accommodate 500 students on its campus. He further indicates that 189 students are currently on outing with only a few in any one district school allowing them to speak English on a more regular basis.
Pratt then discusses that…
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January 7, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter regarding the responsibilities of Anne S. Ely, Agent for Outing Pupils at the Carlisle Indian School. Pratt indicates that Ely oversees all aspects of the Outing program including corresponding with the students and patrons as well as arranging transportation as well as…
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July 11, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt requests to employ a short hand type writer during July, August, and part of September 1889 in order to correspond with outing students.
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July 12, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to spend $400 a year for traveling and incidental expenses of school agents to visit students on the outing program. In addition, he requests $60 to purchase ice for the hospital, kitchen, and school use during the fiscal year.
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December 16, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt responds to an Office of Indian Affairs letter which enclosed a letter from W. B. Backus, Superintendent of the Genoa School, in reference to a system of savings for students. Pratt notes that he believes he fills the place of a parent for the students at the Carlisle Indian School, that he considered teaching students about…
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December 30, 1889
Richard Henry Pratt details how various incoming student parties have diminished and he is therefore able to receive additional students from the Crow Agency in Montana as well as the Piegan Agency. Pratt notes that if the Crow and Piegan funds could be used to transport students then they could take as many students as possible.
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February 27, 1890
Richard Henry Pratt requests to employ Miss L. A. Bender as an additional clerk on the irregular rolls in order to assist with outing students.
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