Word: wampanoag
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...local Algonquian language. “Digging Veritas” represents not only the physical excavations from multiple digs, but also the effects of years of cooperation between students, teachers, the public, and the original stakeholders in Harvard College—the local Native Americans, specifically the Wampanoag tribe. An overarching theme of the course, besides offering tangible archaeology experience, is to facilitate a discourse with the local Native Americans who had been ignored for 300 years. Although the 1655 charter of Harvard College stated its goal was “the education of the English and Indian Youth...
...Lair. My classically pre-Harvardian outburst won me more than just scornful laughs. Instead of revolution, what I got were two weeks of isolation from my imagined comrades. And while it may have been lonely actively refraining from the plebeian trappings of the other members of Wampanoag Cabin, I know now that I most certainly wasn’t alone, because across the country, at science camps and singing camps and sports camps, future Harvard students’ revolutions were being awkwardly thwarted by the exact same forces. But just because we were all here being awkward together...
...graduation rates weren’t what they are today; of the five attendees, one dropped out, two died of disease, and one was murdered. The only graduate died of tuberculosis shortly after receiving his degree. For Tiffany L. Smalley ’11, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag tribe, Anthropology 1130 lets her study the history of her people mere feet from her dorm. “I think it’s really cool that Matthews is supposed to be the site of the first indian college,” said the Matthews resident...
Vanderhoops grew up in Everett, north of Boston, but he belongs to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head on Martha’s Vineyard. He described how, as a child, he longed for life on his tribe’s island...
...Native American who graduated from the original Indian College before it shut down was a Wampanoag tribe member...