Recordkeeping at the School

Use only for discussions of the recordkeeping systems, not for lists or products of the recordkeeping. 

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Standing Provides Recruiting Authorization and Information for Antonio Apache
September 24, 1897

Alfred John Standing provides Antonio Apache authorization to recruit students for the Carlisle Indian School at the Fort Apache and San Carlos Agencies. Standing provides information on how to select students as well as how to provide the correct government forms.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
Cumberland County Historical Society
Pratt Comments on Attempt to Survey Returned Students
March 8, 1898

Richard Henry Pratt informs the Office of Indian Affairs that the proposal to inquire into the circumstances of all of the returned students would require a large amount of time and money.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Adopt Card System for Tracking Students
February 13, 1901

Richard Henry Pratt requests authority to adopt a card system of keeping a record of students since the beginning of the school, and to purchase cards and a card cabinet to store them in. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Wise Provides Reasons for Delay in Forwarding Attendance Report for the 1905 First Quarter
November 14, 1905

J. R. Wise informs the Office of Indian Affairs of the reason for the delay in forwarding the attendance report of the school for the quarter ending September 30, 1905.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Mercer Requests Authority to Use Regular Quarterly Student Report Blank
May 17, 1907

William A. Mercer requests authority to use the regular quarterly school report blank rather than the large blank printed at the Carlisle Indian School.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Arrivals and Departures of Pupils Report for 1910 Third Quarter
May 26, 1910

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs returns triplicate copy of Arrivals and Departures of Pupils for the third quarter of 1910.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
New Form 5-249 for Monthly Reports of Indian Schools
February 14, 1914

These materials include a draft and final letter to Oscar Hiram Lipps, Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School, regarding a new form, Form 5-249, for method reporting. The letter also explains new reporting procedures regarding enrollment and outing students.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Search for Carlisle Indian School Student Records
June 18-29, 1927

Supervisor Herbert C. Calhoun from Muskogee, Oklahoma asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs where he can find information regarding who attended or graduated from the Carlisle Indian School and what their grades were. Calhoun states that several Carlisle graduates are teaching or going to college and need this information.

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Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration