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Rice, Alanna – American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2010
In this article, the author talks about schooling and the development of literacy within Algonquian communities in eighteenth-century southern New England. With the founding of Moor's Indian Charity School in Lebanon, Connecticut, in 1754, congregational minister Eleazar Wheelock launched an educational regimen that aimed to Christianize and…
Descriptors: United States History, Letters (Correspondence), Literacy, Historians
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Crum, Steven J. – History Teacher, 1991
Describes the attempts of President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, to establish a chair for American Indian History at a university. Discusses the responses of universities contacted after World War II. Includes information on the present state of American Indian studies and reasons for the failure of Ickes' efforts.…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian History, American Indian Studies, Cultural Education