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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Szasz, Margaret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States.

Indians of North America--Education.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Missions--History.

Indians of North America--Cultural assimilation.

Missions--United States--History.

Missions.

Indios de América del Norte--Misiones.

Indians of North America--Missions.

Local Subjects:

Indios de América del Norte--Misiones.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1988.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-322) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP Copy: Indian Rights Association Complimentary Collection

Other Format:

Online version: Szasz, Margaret. Indian education in the American colonies, 1607-1783.

ISBN:

0826311032

9780826311030

0826311040

9780826311047

OCLC:

18106173

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