Indian education in the American colonies, 1607-1783

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Indian education in the American colonies, 1607-1783 / Margaret Connell Szasz.

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Armed with Bible and primer, missionaries and teachers in colonial America sought, in their words, "to Christianize and civilize the native heathen." Both the attempts to transform Indians via schooling and the Indians' reaction to such efforts are closely studied for the first time in Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783. Margaret Connell Szasz's remarkable synthesis of archival and published materials is a detailed and engaging story told from both Indian and European perspectives. Szasz argues that the most intriguing dimension of colonial Indian education came with the individuals who tried to work across cultures. We learn of the remarkable accomplishments of two Algonquian students at Harvard, of the Creek woman Mary Musgrove who enabled James Oglethorpe and the Georgians to establish peaceful relations with the Creek Nation, and of Algonquian minister Samson Occom, whose intermediary skills led to the founding of Dartmouth College. The story of these individuals and their compatriots plus the numerous experiments in Indian schooling provide a new way of looking at Indian-white relations and colonial Indian education. -- Provided by publisher.

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ISBN: 0826311032
ISBN: 9780826311030
ISBN: 0826311040
ISBN: 9780826311047
Physical Description: x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1988.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: Introduction -- Education for the colonists -- Virginia : Indian schooling in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Puritans and Indians : New England in the seventeenth century -- The southeast : Carolina traders versus SPG schooling -- The southeast : Methodists and Moravians meet the Yamacraw -- Schooling for the southern New England Algonquian, from the 1690s to the 1730s -- The great awakening and Indian schooling -- Indian women between two worlds : Moor's School and coeducation in the 1760s -- Indian schoolmasters among the Iroquois, from the 1760s to the 1770s -- Conclusion.

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