Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783

Name: Indian Education in the American Colonies, 1607-1783
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ISBN: 9780803259669

ISBN-10: 0803259662

ISBN-13: 9780803259669

Edition: 2007

Authors: Margaret Connell Szasz, 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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 7/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.01" wide x 9.02" long x 0.74" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Introduction to the Bison Books Edition


Illustrations and Maps


Acknowledgments



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


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index