Indian education in the American colonies, 1607-1783 /

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 i...

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Main Author: Szasz, Margaret.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, ©1988.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of 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.