An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of Indian Affairs for the fiscal year ending 1880, containing the first annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report discusses the school's opening, recruitment of students, educational and industrial curricula, and overall health. Also included…
School Curriculum
1880
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Book
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Annual Reports, Building Repairs and Expansions, Industrial Training - General, Discipline, Enrollment Statistics, Prisoners from Ft. Marion (1875-1878), Students Returning Home, School Curriculum, Student Deaths, School Newspapers, Students on Outings, County and State Fairs, Local Church Attendance and Activities, Industrial Program Statistics, School Band, Students - Organization into Military-Style Units
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1883
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1883, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian School. The report provides a table of enrollment statistics, and has two addendums: one, a lengthy report by Principal C. M. Semple on the school's…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1885
An excerpt from the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs to the Secretary of the Interior for the fiscal year ending 1885, containing the annual report of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. The report includes a school population table as well as discussions of industry, academic work, dormitory expansions, and sanitary…
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Book
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
1902
A booklet of information and photographs assembled by the Carlisle Indian School for their 23rd year, circa 1902. Includes a short history of the school and the town and school demographic information. Includes pictures of arriving students, students during classroom and extracurricular activities, the buildings on campus, farmwork, athletics…
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Pamphlet
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Dickinson College Archives & Special Collections
April 23, 1890 - April 24, 1890
Alfred John Standing writing for Richard Henry Pratt provides an explanation to proposed change in the course of study for various grades at the Carlisle Indian School. In addition he includes a list of the courses of study and the recommended text books.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
July 5, 1900
Richard Henry Pratt requests to add a Domestic Science Department at the Carlisle Indian School and requests authority to employ Harriet Eck as an extra teacher.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 8-26, 1907
Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher John Whitwell forwards a pamphlet that provides an overview of a new agriculture class to Superintendent William A. Mercer. Mercer forwards it to Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs C. F. Larrabee, who tentatively approves the course. The pamphlet, "Outline of Course in Agriculture, Indian Industrial…
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Books and Pamphlets, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
March 11, 1914 - March 5, 1915
Correspondence regarding the proposal to abolish the business/commercial department at the Carlisle Indian School while adding new courses focusing on home economics, mechanical arts, nursing, and agriculture. An additional focus is on the beginning of the Ford Outing Program. A copy of The Carlisle Arrow (Vol. 11, No. 22) that…
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Letters/Correspondence, Newspapers and Magazines
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National Archives and Records Administration
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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Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
April 5, 1915 - September 16, 1915
Report on the Vocational Courses in Agriculture, Mechanic Arts and Home Economics for the Carlisle Indian School by H. L. Kent, Special Supervisor and correspondence surrounding the report. Kent's report focuses on making Carlisle a secondary vocational school focusing on agriculture, mechanical arts, and home economics including courses of…
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Letters/Correspondence, Reports
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National Archives and Records Administration
February 6, 1917 - February 8, 1917
Assistant Commissioner E. B. Meritt forwards twelve copies of the tentative course of study for Indian schools to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps. Lipps acknowledges receipt of the books, states that they've never destroyed other versions of the books, and that they've previously sent copies to employers or outing patrons…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
June 20, 1917
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent John Francis Jr. sends copies of the final exam questions for 1917 to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
May 16, 1918 - June 8, 1918
Carlisle Indian School Principal Teacher C. W. Blair writes to Pennsylvania State College Registrar Professor A. H. Espenshade about designing curriculum that would prepare students to attend college. He sends an example of what classes an Indian School student would take and asks Blair if that coursework would get them into Penn State.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration