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This fall, the University used a $3 million gift from the Oneida tribe to establish the Harvard Law School Oneida Indian Nation Professorship, a move intended to promote American Indian-focused scholarship at the Law School. But one professorship may not be enough to recruit more American Indian students to Harvard, or create a larger courseload in American Indian studies across the University. What’s more, unlike other comparable colleges, Harvard has little specialized recruitment of American Indian students and limited resources for pursuits in American Indian studies...
Harvard College’s Native American history mirrors that of our nation’s American Indian history—mostly embarrassing, though not without its redemptive moments...
After failed attempts at courting donors, Dunster enlisted the help of the ambitiously titled Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in New England. The Society suggested a method for procuring funds: all Dunster had to do was take American Indian students into Harvard and deep-pocketed donors would step forward. The more these students knew English, the Society’s thinking went, the more they’d be able to read the gospel...
Dunster went a step further, rewriting the College’s charter to include a dedication to the “education of the English and Indian youth?...
With the funds Dunster secured, Harvard constructed its “Indian College” in 1655, where Native American and non-Native students were to be housed. Before the building fell into uninhabitable disrepair in 1693, it had housed a grand total of four Native students, only one of whom made it to graduation. The rest of the space was rented to non-Native students...