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...Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Joel Iacoomes, John Wampus and Eleazer and Benjamin Larnell are hardly household names...
According to a recent speech by Native American Program Director Lorie Graham, Cheeshahteaumuck and Iacoomes, both members of the Wampanoag tribe, took their Harvard entrance examinations after a series of steps toward their conversion...
Susan Power, a 1986 graduate of the Law School, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and author of the award-winning novel The Grass Dancers, read experts from her short story entitled "First Fruits" in honor of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck 1665, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College...
...first four-year students--Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck and Joel Iacoomis (both class of 1665)--died before they could carry their Harvard education to the pulpit. A few days before Commencement, Joel was killed in a ship-wreck off Nantucket in which those who escaped drowning were "murthered by some wicked Indians of that place." His classmate Caleb survived long enough to become Harvard's only Indian College graduate--but died a few months later...
...years of its solitary reign, the little college in Cambridge, Massachusetts graduated such varied and influential men as Samuel Mather, Nathaniel Mather, Eleazar Mather, Warham Mather, Increase Mather, Cotton Mather, and one Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Indian who forsook the fresh air of Martha's Vineyard for the schoolroom and as a result died of tuberculosis a year after graduation...