These materials include correspondence related to recommendations made by Emma D. Goulette, Vice-President on Education for The Society of American Indians. Goulette, in response to the 1914 Congressional investigation of the Carlisle Indian School, suggested that better teachers, prepared with college education instead of qualified through the…
1914
September 29, 1914 - October 12, 1914
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 1 - 21, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the enrollment of Joseph Guyon at the Keewatin Academy in Prarie Du Chien, Wisconsin. The headmaster of the Keewatin Academy claimed the Carlisle Indian School administration and Coach Glenn "Pop" Warner were threatening to blackmail the Academy into releasing Guyon so he could continue to play…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 1-8, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to waive the requirement that Bud Walker pay for his own transportation to and tuition at the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 2 - 8, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a request for the authority to pay a fee for recovering James Running Hawk.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 3 - 29, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint against Richard Kesetta as a child. Further information is given about the circumstances of how Kesetta came to be a student at Carlisle.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 5, 1914 - October 24, 1914
Supervisor in Charge of the Carlisle Indian School Oscar H. Lipps asks the Indian Office if authorities have been granted for a request from September 17, 1914 because he needs them to complete his quarterly accounts.
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Lipps that he should've asked for this information…
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Letters/Correspondence
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October 6-31, 1914
Mrs. Rose Collins asks the Commissioner of Indian Affairs Cato Sells why her daughter, a student at the Carlisle Indian School, has to pay for her own music lessons. Second Assistant Commissioner C. F. Hauke forwards Collins' letter to Supervisor in Charge of the school Oscar H. Lipps.
Lipps informs the Commissioner that vocal,…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 8-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a clerical error that arose from confusion between Mabel and Lena Brunette. Lena was on outing and feared that she would not receive money sent to her for her return home.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 10-29, 1914
These materials include correspondence related to a request by George Appletree to have his nieces and nephew, Susie, Carrie, and Lucien Rice, attend the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 10-19, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding the transfer of Filerio Tafoya from Carlisle to the Chilocco Indian Agricultural School to take a course in electrical engineering.
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Letters/Correspondence
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October 12-22, 1914
This material includes a letter from Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps about the application for enrollment of Edward Anderson.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 13, 1914 - July 23, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request for enrollment by Samuel White Bear, as well as a request for executive clemency for a court-imposed fine.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 14, 1914 - February 13, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding a request by Louis D. White to re-enroll at the Carlisle Indian School, including a resolution by the Mohawk Council of Tribes.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 16, 1914 - February 15, 1915
These materials include correspondence concerning the application for tribal funds by student and upcoming graduate Cora Battice.
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 17, 1914 - November 17, 1915
These materials include correspondence regarding the application by student James Holy Eagle towards his pro rata share of tribal trust funds.
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Financial Documents, Legal and Government Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 19 - 31, 1914
These materials contain correspondence regarding a complaint made by J. Brown Kelly, a farmer with land next to the Carlisle School, against students who were vandalizing his property.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 20, 1914 - December 10, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request to enroll four applicants living near Charenton, Louisiana. Superintendent Lipps was informed that he should look into the individual merits of each case and was given permission to enroll them upon his discretion.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 21, 1914
A program for a violin recital held at the school in October 1914.
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Memorabilia and Ephemera
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 23, 1914 - December 24, 1914
This material includes correspondence concerning an incident between Superintendent Oscar Hiram Lipps and Doctor Walter Rendtorff about an operation on student Henry Tomah (spelled here as Henry Tomau). Dr. Rendtorff desired to either send Tomau to a Philadelphia hospital or request the help of Dr. Deaver from town for an appendectomy, and…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 25, 1914 - November 30, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a complaint made by Andrew Goforth to his guardian that Carlisle was feeding him insufficiently and that he wanted to leave. Goforth's complaint is linked to homesickness by Carlisle's officials.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 26, 1914
This document contains a letter concerning receipts belonging to the Carlisle Football team.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
October 28 - November 30, 1914
These materials include correspondence regarding a request from Olive N. Estes to enroll at the Carlisle Indian School.
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 3, 1914
Carlisle Indian School Superintendent Oscar H. Lipps requests to spend $32 from the "Indian School, Carlisle, Pa., 1915" account on hospital care and operating room fees for student Katherine Peters. Peters suffered from appendicitis while on outing.
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Financial Documents
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National Archives and Records Administration
November 4, 1914 - May 1, 1915
Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt acknowledges receipt of communication from Joseph M. Herman Shoe Co. regarding the Carlisle Indian School Supervisor in Charge refusing to pay a $97.20 bill for delivering shoes to the school. Meritt asks Supervisor in Charge Oscar H. Lipps for a full report on the matter. Lipps encloses all…
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Financial Documents, Letters/Correspondence
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November 5-11, 1914
Cherokee Indian from Eastern North Carolina W. H. Oxendine requests to know if a recommendation from the State Superintendent of Education would be enough for admission to the Carlisle Indian School, where he wants to go to receive industrial training. Assistant Commissioner of Indian Affairs E. B. Meritt informs Oxendine that that the school…
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Letters/Correspondence
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National Archives and Records Administration