Indigenous Education and Family Separation
Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home, 1/2
Theresa Green, “Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home.” Three letters between Theresa Green and the office of Indian Affairs, 1908. National Archives and Records Administration.
Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home, 2/2
Theresa Green, “Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home.” Three letters between Theresa Green and the office of Indian Affairs, 1908. National Archives and Records Administration. 2/2
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| Odanah, Wisconsin June 13, 1908 To the Hon. Commissioner of Indian Affairs Washington D.C. |
This is a letter from Theresa Green to the Office of Indian Affairs. |
| Dear Sir: I like to get an aid from you to get my daughter Marie Arteshaw home from Carlisle Pa. School Which I sent there three years ago in next Aug. I only made three years contract when she went to stay in that school. |
Theresa requests that the Office help her daughter, Marie Arteshaw, return home. Marie is currently a student at the Carlisle Indian School. |
| I wrote to the Supt. Moses Friedman the other day asking him to send her home this summer | Theresa wrote to the school, but the school refused her request. |
| and he told me that my contract was for five years which I only made for three years in any acknowledgment. | Theresa believes she signed a three-year contract, but the school insists she signed a five-year contract. |
| She has been in the Government schools since she was about five or six years old and she is pasted eighteen now and she wants to come home now and my-self I like to see her come home now. And that is the only child I have, so I am anxious to see her.
Your’s Truly |
Marie wants to come home, and Theresa is eager to see her daughter. |
Theresa Green, “Request for Marie Arteshaw to Return Home.” Three letters between Theresa Green and the office of Indian Affairs, 1908. National Archives and Records Administration.
Moses Friedman to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Friedman, Moses. Moses Friedman to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Carlisle, Pennsylvania. June 27, 1908. National Archives and Records Administration.
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| Department of the Interior United States Indian Service Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, PA. Subject: Reports on request of Mrs. Theresa Green for return of daughter Marie Artishaw. June 27, 1908The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. |
This is a letter from the superintendent of the Carlisle Indian School to the Office of Indian Affairs. |
| Sir: I am in receipt of your Office letter (Education 40302-1908) dated the 26th instant, referring, for report and recommendation, a letter from Mrs. Theresa Green, of Odanah, Wis., asking that her daughter, Marie Arteshaw, be sent home. |
The superintendent is providing a report to the Office regarding Theresa’s request that her daughter, Marie, be sent home. |
| Reporting on the matter, I have to say that Marie Arteshaw was enrolled at this school on September 4, 1905, for the period of five years. There is on file here a consent properly signed by Theresa Green and Marie Arteshaw, dated August 29, 1905. It is on the regular form used at that time, upon which the period of enrollment, “five(5)years” is printed. The girl was brought from La Pointe Agency, with other pupils, by Mrs. A. E. Saxon. | Marie enrolled at the school in 1905. She and her mother signed a contract stating she would be at the school for five years. |
| Marie has been giving some trouble in the country home to which she went this spring under our outing system, but she has now been transferred to another home where it is believed she will get along well. | Marie has recently been in trouble at the school, but the staff believes that her behavior may improve. |
| Her dissatisfaction the past few weeks has doubtless caused her to request her mother to endeavor to secure her release. |