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Carlisle, Pa., April 1, 1901.

Mr. John Powell.
Cherokee or Big Cave,
Swain Co., N. Car.

Dear Sir :-

I think you make a mistake in wanting to take your boys a-
way from Carlisle. They have here an opportunity to learn a great
many things outside of what can be learned in an Indian school. I
hope you will think it over and come to the conclusion that your un-
xiety to get them home is not in accordance either with your or their
best interests; but if it is impossible to reconcile yourself to
their absence and allow them to remain, I will consider the matter
in as favorable a manner as I can when the students are sent home at
the end of June.

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Carlisle, Pa., April 1, 1901.

Edwin L. Chalcraft,
Supervisor of Indian Schools,
Hotel Athearn,
Ashland, Wis.

My dear Chalcraft :-

Thanks for your congratulations. It is pleasant to hear
from you. I am just home from Hot Springs after a six weeks' stay
there hoping to get rid of lameness and rheumatism, but find that I
am not to be entirely relieved from it as long as I remain on this
planet.

Would be glad to hear anything good about our boys and girls as
you pass around, and would like to know the inside facts as you come
across them in regard to the feeling toward Carlisle. I apprehend
that generally it is not favorable, but it is good to know the truth
and I know you will write me just that; so be perfectly frank with
me and let me hear from you occasionally.

I shall be home for a little while, perhaps not so very long.
Have some thought of making a long trip in the west among the Indians
or going to Europe. Hope to do one or the other, possibly may not
be able to do either.

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Carlisle, Pa., Apr. 1, 1901.

Miss Marion Lambert,

Miles, Wash.

Dear Miss Lambert:—

I have your letter of the 22nd making application for ad-
mission to this School. I also received a similar request from your
sister and have heard of you through Miss Wood, and from the inform-
ation so given me have decided to grant your request, and will have
a ticket placed for your use at Davenport which please use with as
little delay as possible. This action is taken on the supposition
that your health is good and that you will accept the usual condi-
tions of admission to this school which is for a term of five years
unless you graduate sooner. From what I hear of you I think you will
be able to complete the course in much less time than that.

Dic.A.J.·c.(M)

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Carlisle, Pa., Apr. 1, 1901.

Mr. C. D. Brower,

St. Barrow, Alaska.

Dear Sirs:

Your letter dated August 26th, 1900, in regard to the return home of Oonaleana has been forwarded here by Dr. Jackson. In reply I have to say that it is not the custom here to receive any pupils for a shorter term than five years. Oonaleana therefore is not entitled by reason of expiration of term to leave the school. I will say however that he is so placed that I think his knowledge of English will be very much improved, and of course each year will add considerably to his literary attainments although he is not bright as a student, he is an excellent worker and in good health.

Dr. Jackson was here at commencement time and saw him with other Alaskans and said in regard to his case that he felt the school authorities were best able to judge what ought to be done in each particular case. I think the best thing for Oonaleana is to make out his full term, especially as it will probably be the only opportunity of his lifetime to get anything of an education.

Oonaleana has been living away from the school this winter with a family and attending school with white children. He will remain in this place during the summer. I enclose you a copy of his report for the month of February.

Dio.A.J.S.(M)

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whom the doctor reports as having consumption and large open sores
on his chest which will not heal, and recommends that he be returned
to his home. I do not know whether this boy comes directly under
your care or not, but I accept Doctor's recommendation and will re-
turn him at the first favorable opportunity and advise you by wire of
the time of his arrival at Shawnee.

Dio. A.J.S. (M)

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Article, Pa., Apr. 1, 1991.

Mrs. Augustine Choteau,

Pawhuska, Okla. ty.

Dear Madam:-

I have your letter of the 28th in regard to the return home
of Lizzie Aiken and note what you say in regard to the matter, but
on looking up the record I find that Lizzie Aiken entered the school
for a second term in September, '99, only about a year and a half ago.
She is not therefore entitled to return home and as she is in good
health and doing well, I do not see why she should be released from
her obligations here.

When at home she was anxious to come back to school and
entered for the second term. If she did not intend to complete it,
or graduate, that was the time when she should have saved her re-
lations with the school,

Die. A.J.S. (M)

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Carlisle, Pa., April 2, 1901.

Hon. W. A. Jones,
Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Mr. Commissioner :-

Just for your own personal information I want to say that
between Sept. 27th and March 30th we have had applications for girls
and boys in satisfactory places for a total of 870. We can furnish
a good deal less than half that number. These applications have been
made without any solicitation whatever on our part. It shows how our
students are appreciated. Pupils' earnings for last year were
$27,255.52. Had I enough pupils to supply the applicants for them,
their earnings under the outing would be pretty nearly doubled. This
condition has occurred every year for many years. I have reported
it repeatedly without attracting attention or securing action that
would enable us to utilize all the advantages we possess. I wish
that in some way there might be such a stirring upas would give us
the proper pupils to fill these opportunities.

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Buffalo Meat,

Omega, O. T.

My dear friend :-

Your boy is entitled to go home this year and I have in-
structed that his name be placed on the home list, so that when stu-
dents leave here for their homes on the 1st of July he will be one
of them. I hope you and he will find it just as well that he come
back and finish the course at Carlisle. It means a great deal to a
young person to start in at the school period and go through to the
end.

I have not been well and have been away from home for a long
time trying to improve my health. Am much better now. Hope to see
you sometime this summer as I am thinking of a long trip among the
Indians in the west.

As ever, Faithfully your friend,

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Carlisle, Pa., April 2, 1901.

Frederick G. Burnham,
828 Broad St.,
Newark, New Jersey.

My dear Sir :-

Replying to yours of the 29th ult., I certainly think the
introduction of sloyd for the younger people at your Berkshire Indus-
trial Farm would be a valuable beginning for more practical use of
tools at some particular trade later. Sloyd, as you probably know,
is largely woodwork, but ironwork is included now. Here only
woodwork has been used. The mechanical ideas gained in the wood-
partment of sloyd are valuable in any mechanical line, measuring
of square and compass, shaping, keeping the tools sharp, planning
things and making drawings for them first, then making the articles
to correspond with the drawings, all are most useful in any trade.
You will find I am sure that the use of tools in this way will tend
greatly to contentment. Training the hand and brain at the same time is
the most consistent method of education. In addition to sloyd we
have a regular carpenter shop in which we attend to everything in the
house building line for ourselves. We run a printing office, print-
ing a paper that has a very wide circulation and requires a good deal
of ability to eat up, print, and mail properly. We also make wagons
and carriages of all sorts, tinware, shoes, and harness, our own
clothing, and through our engineer we put in all our own fittings for
heating our plant and make any changes that may be necessary. For

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the girls we run a cooking school, let them work at sloyd, etc. and
instruct them quite thoroughly in sewing, laundry and general house-
work. I think it would be a good plan to come down yourself and vis-
it us. We are not pretentious in methods, system, or buildings; yet
I can claim we are doing as practical work as any school in the coun-
try.

There is a feature of our school which I think it would be well
for you to consider in reference to your pupils, i. e., The Outing.
Under this system I now carry from six to seven hundred students ev-
ery summer away from the school working for farmers and in families.
Last summer their earnings amounted to over $27,000.

I recall a great loss not only to yours and mine but to many
other good schemes for the benefiting of humanity in the death of
our great and good friend, Dr. Agnew. It was a great light gone out
when he passed away.

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