LibGuide: Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck,
1st Native American to graduate Harvard College

                                                    
                              This portrait of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, the first Native graduate of the university,
                                                      hangs on the first floor of Annenberg Hall. (Harvard Foundation)        

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/02/18/wampanoags-and-harvard-celebrate-historic-ties-153631

The Harvard Indian College

 

 

 

 

"In addition to supporting education, the Society’s gift to Harvard served to construct the Indian College building in Harvard Yard in 1655 and to print the first Bible translated into the native Algonquian language by the missionary John Eliot. The “Indian Bible” was first published between 1660 and 1663."

                                                                    

 

Mass Moments: Ceremony Honors Early Indian Students                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Photograph by Kris Snibbe

"A handsome plaque on Matthews Hall, unveiled May 3, [1997] marks the site of Harvard's Indian College
and salutes its first scholars."

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, People of the First Light, People of the Dawn

Wampanoag Culture and History  
...collection of indexed links about the Wampanoag people and various aspects of their society...
This page of links grew out of the extensive website work presenting the Wampanoag language.

Wampanoag Words

"The Wampanoag language has not been natively spoken by the community in many years, so these vocabulary words come from 18th- and 19th-century sources and their pronunciation is uncertain. Some of the Wampanoag tribal groups in Massachusetts are working on reviving their language with a new orthography (writing system) similar to the ones used by other Algonquian-speaking tribes. They haven't yet published a dictionary or language learning book but once they do, we'll be sure to link to it here to help with pronunciation."