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...have [Iacoomes’] name attached to something of this sort would be an excellent tribute to his memory,” said Durwood Vanderhoop, a member of the tribal council of the present-day Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) on Martha’s Vineyard...
Earlier this month, the University hosted a two-day conference celebrating the 350th anniversary of Harvard Indian College, which sought to convert members of the local Wampanoag tribe to Christianity...
According to historians, only Wampanoag Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck graduated from the College before the building fell into disuse and was ultimately demolished during the late seventeenth century. Native Americans did not attend Harvard University again until the 1970s...
Friday’s opening ceremony featured tribal chairs from the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, and Nipmuc Nation, the descendants of the first students of the Indian College...
Brooks said she considered the conference significant because it honored the first Native students at the Indian College and also began the necessary work of repairing some “fraught relations” between the local Wampanoag people and the University...