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Did you know that Harvard once had a school solely devoted 
to the education and Christianization 
of 
American Indians?

Harvard University 
is situated in 
Wampanoag Country, 
the homeland of 
Squanto (Tisquantum), Massasoit, Metacom, Wootonekanuske, William Apess, 
and
Harvard alumni, 
John Sassamon (Wampanoag), Joel Iacoombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag), 
James Printer (Nipmuc),
and 
class of 1665, 
Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck (Aquinnah Wampanoag).
While 
Harvard's Indian College
has almost entirely been forgotten, 
in the mid-seventeenth century 
     it was slated to play a critical role in England's colonization 
of North America. 

     Harvard's "first fruits" had consequences that continue to unfold into the present.

On Our Own Ground: Mapping Indigeneity within the Academy September 17-18, 2004 Harvard University	From the Gospel to Sovereignty: Commemorating the 350th Anniversary of Harvard Indian College April 8-9, 2005 Harvard University

Harvard's Charter

1650

 

Whereas through the good hand of God

many well devoted persons

have beene and dayly are moved and stirred up to give and bestowe 

sundry guiftes legacies lands and Revennewes

for the advancement

of all good literature artes and Sciences at

Harvard Colledge

in Cambridge in the County of Middlesex

and to the maintenance of the 

President and Fellowes

and for all accommodacons of Buildings

and all other necessary provisions 

that may conduce 

to the education of English & Indian youth of this Country

in knowledge and godliness.

I.	Founding
II.	Early Curriculum
III.	The Wampanoag Bible
IV.	Honoring Those That Came Before Us
V.	Significant Moments in the History of Native Harvard
VI.	Further Readings