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By Colin G. Calloway

ISBN-10: 1584658444

ISBN-13: 9781584658443

Dartmouth collage begun lifestyles as an Indian university, a pretense that has given that been deserted. nonetheless, the establishment has a distinct, if advanced, courting with local american citizens and their historical past. starting with Samson Occom’s position because the first “development officer” of the school, Colin G. Calloway tells the total, advanced tale of Dartmouth’s historic and ongoing dating with local american citizens. Calloway recounts the struggles and achievements of Indian attendees and the heritage of Dartmouth alumni’s involvements with American Indian affairs. He additionally covers more moderen advancements, akin to the mascot controversies, the emergence of an lively local American pupil association, and the partial success of a promise deferred. this can be a attention-grabbing photo of an elite American establishment and its stricken courting— every now and then compassionate, from time to time conflicted—with Indians and local American tradition.

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18 Wheelock favored a location in the Cowass region, and the English Board of Trustees approved it. In 1768, Wheelock appointed Rev. Ebenezer Cleaveland of Gloucester, Massachusetts, and one of his own parishioners, John Wright, to make a tour of the Cowass country and report on suitable sites. The infant towns in the upper valley—Charlestown, Hanover, Haverhill, Lyme, Orford, Piermont, Plainfield, Hartford, Hartland, Norwich, Thetford, and Newbury—competed to attract the school. Some offered handsome grants of land, others in-kind subscriptions.

The Onondagas were even more forthright than the Oneidas in expressing their views about Wheelock’s schooling. Shaking Ralph by the shoulder, they told him they knew only too well the methods the English used to teach Indian children. “Learn yourself to understand the word of God, before you undertake to teach & govern others,” they said and then, which Wheelock must have hated to hear, “learn of the French ministers if you would understand, & know how to treat Indians. ” 43 In February 1772, two Narragansett former students, John Matthews and Abraham Simon, went from Hanover as emissaries to Tuscarora country.

34 Wheelock took Towsey’s older boy, Benjamin, and advised Towsey to wait until the younger one was ready for school. 35 Samson Occom saw what was happening and he called Wheelock on it. Formerly Wheelock’s devoted student, Occom was furious at Wheelock’s misuse now of the funds Occom had worked so hard to pry out of English and Scottish hands. He may also have been displeased that the school he helped to found was better placed to educate Abenakis, who had sided with the French in recent wars, than this own Mohegan people, who had been allies of the English.

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