Colleges chartered for Indian education, then taken over: Harvard's 1650 charter ("the education of the English and Indian youth of this Country"); Harvard Indian…

Year: 1650 · Places: Europe

SUMMARYColleges chartered for Indian education, then taken over: Harvard's 1650 charter ("the education of the English and Indian youth of this Country"); Harvard Indian College (1655), Harvard's first brick building, home of the press that printed the Massachusett-language Bible; Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (Wampanoag), graduated 1665. Dartmouth's 1769 charter ("Youth of the Indian Tribes"), funded by about 12,000 pounds Samson Occom (Mohegan) raised in Britain, then filled with white students; Occom felt betrayed. Moor's Indian Charity School (1754, Dartmouth's forerunner, named for donor Joshua Moor). William & Mary's Brafferton Indian School (1723). Yale: no Indian college; Elihu Yale's fortune from the East India Company's Madras post, including slave-trade involvement. Record.
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