Moses Friedman
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| birth_date = Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
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| occupation = superintendent
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Moses Friedman (born 1874) was a superintendent of schools. He was the second leader of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Friedman was born in Cincinnati. His father was a Jewish immigrant from Germany.{{Cite web | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D55EAQAAIAAJ&q=%22moses+friedman%22 | title=Telling stories out of school: Remembering the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879-1918| last1=Bell| first1=Genevieve| publisher = Stanford University| year=1998}}
Friedman graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 1894. In late 1913 and early 1914, he was a subject of congressional hearings about "Indian Affairs". Various accusations were made against him including mismanagement and financial improprieties.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r1ZBAQAAMAAJ&q=%22moses+friedman%22|title=Hearings Before the Joint Commission of the Congress of the United States, Sixty-third Congress ... to Investigate Indian Affairs, Sept. 15 ... 1913 [-Dec. 16, 1914].|first=United States Joint Commission to Investigate Indian|last=Affairs|date=June 16, 1914|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|via=Google Books}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GQRZaoIAAqEC&q=%22moses+friedman%22&pg=PA91|title=Keep A-goin': The Life of Lone Star Dietz|first=Tom|last=Benjey|date=June 16, 2006|publisher=Tuxedo Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780977448616}}
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Friedman served as editor of the school's Indian Craftsman publication.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qp81fdtpzjgC&q=%22moses+friedman%22&pg=PA172|title=The American New Woman Revisited: A Reader, 1894-1930|first=Martha H.|last=Patterson|date=June 16, 2008|publisher=Rutgers University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780813542966}}
Friedman married the daughter of Baptist minister Green Clay Smith and converted from Judaism to Christianity.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8h6EAAAQBAJ&dq=Mary+Buford+Smith+Moses+Friedman&pg=PA101|title=Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe |first=David|last=Maraniss|date=2022|publisher=Simon and Schuster|via=Google Books|isbn=9781476748412}}
Pop Warner was the football coach at the school while Friedman was superintendent. Jim Thorpe was one of the school's star athletes and won Olympic glory before controversy ensued over his involvement in a professional summer baseball league that caused his amateur status to be revoked and his medals to be stripped. Friedman claimed no knowledge of his participation in pro leagues and expressed dismay over the scandal saying it tarnished the school's reputation.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EscpDwAAQBAJ&q=%22moses+friedman%22&pg=PA591|title=Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition|first=John Milton|last=Oskison|date=June 16, 2012|publisher=U of Nebraska Press|via=Google Books|isbn=978-0803237926}}
Friedman advocated for "Indians" to be trained in vocational trades and as artisans.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZeofmhml7MC&q=%22moses+friedman%22&pg=PA292|title=Indian Blues: American Indians and the Politics of Music, 1879–1934|first=John W.|last=Troutman|date=June 14, 2013|publisher=University of Oklahoma Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9780806150024}}
After departing Carlisle he became superintendent of the Anchor Ranch School for Defective Boys in Valdez, New Mexico and then in 1921 became head of a vocational school in Pocono Pines, Pennsylvania.
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Category:Carlisle Indian Industrial School faculty
Category:School superintendents in Ohio
Category:People from Cincinnati
Category:American people of German-Jewish descent
Category:University of Cincinnati alumni
Category:Converts to Christianity from Judaism