1909

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Request for Enrollment of Max Mixsooke
March 31 - April 5, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Franklin Moses to enroll Max Mixsooke in the Carlisle Indian School. Moses' request was granted by Francis E. Leupp, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Baseball Players for the Department of the Interior Team
April 1, 1909 - April 10, 1909

Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine asks Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman if he has any male students that could work for the messenger service for the Indian Affairs Office and also be a pitcher on the Department of the Interior baseball team. 

Friedman informs Valentine that Joseph Johnson is…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Proposal to Change Appointment Procedures
April 4, 1909

These materials include a letter from Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs Robert Valentine to Carlisle's Superintendent, Moses Friedman, proposing a change to how employment appointments are made for the Carlisle Indian School. Valentine suggested bringing Carlisle's appointment policies in line with the rest of Bureau, placing that…

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Reorganization of the Appointment Process
April 4, 1909

Acting Commissioner R. G. Valentine informs Superintendent Moses Friedman that they are reorganizing the Education Division of the Office, so the organizations dealing with appointments for schools and agencies have now been combined into one office specializing only in appointments.

Valentine also asks if Friedman would be comfortable…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home of James Henry
April 5-15, 1909

This document contains correspondence concerning James Henry. The student had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, and was returned to his home in Sweet Water, Idaho. 

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Abolition of Teacher Position
April 8, 1909 - April 9, 1909

First Assistant Secretary of the Department of the Interior Frank Pierce grants the Commissioner of Indian Affairs the authority to abolish a teacher position at the Carlisle Indian School.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Board for Students Attending Philadelphia Institute of Art
April 9, 1909 - May 11, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding appropriations for the board of students attending the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home of Noble Thompson
April 10-17, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a request to return Noble Thompson to his home in Laguna, New Mexico.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Leave of Absence for Sanitarium Trip for Moses Friedman
April 26, 1909

These materials include a telegram from Carlisle Superintendent Moses Friedman informing the Bureau of Indian Affairs that he was leaving for a trip to the Walters Sanitarium in Wernersville, Pennsylvania. John Whitwell was left in charge of the school in Friedman's absence.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Status of "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" Account
May 3, 1909 - May 12, 1909

Chief of the Accounts Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick informs Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman that he can't send him the "Indian Moneys, Proceeds of Labor" funds because that account is overdrawn. 

Friedman requests that the Commissioner of Indian Affairs send him a list of authorities…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Dispute over Gardener's Salary
May 11 - July 21, 1909

Carlisle Gardener Reinholt H. Hoffman writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs because he was tasked with working as a temporary agricultural teacher but only received a gardener's salary. Superintendent Moses Friedman argues that Hoffman should not receive a higher salary since he did not actually teach. However, even though Hoffman's work…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home of Renville Children
May 14 - June 29, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Sampson H. Renville to have his two daughters, Germaine and Fleeta, returned to their home in Peever, South Dakota from the Carlisle Indian School. Renville's request was granted after determining the children had access to public schools.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Commissioner of Indian Affairs' Best Wishes Regarding Mrs. Friedman's Accident
May 15, 1909

The Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs expresses his best wishes to Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman's wife, who recently had an accident and fractured a bone. He also informs Friedman that he could potentially visit the school soon.

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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
Postponement of Trip Due to Mrs. Friedman Injury
May 15, 1909

Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the Acting Commissioner of Indian Affairs that his trip to Washington DC must be postponed because Mrs. Friedman fractured her hip.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Alaskan Students in May 1909
May 21 - 26, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request to return three Alaskan students to their homes from Carlisle.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Clarence De Graff
May 24 - June 22, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Clarence De Graff to end his enrollment at Carlisle early and return home.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Inquiry into Denial of Enrollment of St. Regis New York Pupils
May 26, 1909 - June 8, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Volney J. Ellis, Superintendent of the St. Regis Indian Schools, that the Carlisle Indian School was rejecting all pupils from the St. Regis Reservation. In response, Ellis was instructed that New York State had made provisions to educate Indian children in schools near their…

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home from Louis Bear
May 31 - June 14, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Louis Bear to return to his home before his term of enrollment had expired.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Process to Place "Support Funds" and "Miscellaneous Funds" to Friedman's Credit
June 2, 1909 - June 3, 1909

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs how soon re-deposits of the "Support Funds" and "Miscellaneous Funds" can be placed to his official credit. 

Chief of the Accounts Division of the Department of the Interior H. Dimick informs Friedman that the funds cannot be placed to his…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request for Return Home by Taquah Wolfe
June 8 - August 18, 1909

These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Taquah Wolf to be sent home.

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request By Peter Cole
June 14 - July 7, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding a request by Peter Cole to have his son returned home to Hogansburg, New York over the summer break.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Purchase Ventilators for the School Gymnasium
June 17, 1909

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests to purchase six 30 inch Burt Glass Top ventilators for the school gymnasium. Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine approves the expenditure and returns the request.

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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Disagreement about a Potential Nurse Raise
June 21, 1909 - July 1, 1909

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman requests that the nurse's salary not be raised from $720 to $780 per year because "the work here is not arduous, there being a number of student apprentice nurses who render valuable assistance." In addition, the costs in food supply bids have increased between 5% and 20%. 

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Request to Return Albert Scott
June 22 - July 8, 1909

These materials contain correspondence regarding the return of Albert Scott to his home Blue Lake, California from Carlisle.

Format:
Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration
Resignation of Commissioner of Indian Affairs Francis E. Leupp
June 22-26, 1909

Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Moses Friedman informs the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs R. G. Valentine that he received the copies of the previous Commissioner Francis E. Leupp's resignation and will print and send back 100 copies. Friedman states that he is disappointed that Leupp had to resign due to poor health.

Friedman…

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Letters/Correspondence
Repository:
National Archives and Records Administration