Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783

By:

Margaret Connell Szasz

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Indigenous Education

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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.

Author Biography:

Margaret Connell Szasz is a professor of Native American and Celtic history at the University of New Mexico and the author of Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker and Education and the American Indian: The Road to Self-Determination since 1928.

Release date NZ

July 1st, 2007

Author

Margaret Connell Szasz

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Introduction by Margaret Connell Szasz

Illustrations

38 photographs, 8 maps, index

Pages

360

Series

Indigenous Education

Dimensions

3895x5830x19

ISBN-13

9780803259669

Product ID

4182267

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