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[[cut off]]ead solely upon the destruction of
[[cut off]]ive culture. Early educational
[[cut off]]grams for Indian students, such as
[[cut off]]e at Harvard, William and Mary, and
[[cut off]]mouth Colleges were aimed entirely
[[cut off]]he Europeanization of the natives
[[cut off]]had no connection whatsoever with
[[cut off]]rican folk educational traditions. In
[[cut off]]nia, for example, the scientist,
[[cut off]]ert Boyle, endowed a "college" (at
[[cut off]]am and Mary College) for Indian
[[cut off]]s, which school was formally 
[[cut off]]tered in 1792. Instruction
[[cut off]]menced about a decade earlier, being
[[cut off]]tially the continuation of a very
[[cut off]]entary grammar school program
[[cut off]]ted at Fort Christianna in 1714
[[cut off]]r the leadership of Rev. Charles
[[cut off]]in. The curricula included "the
[[cut off]]e rudiments of reading, writing, and
[[cut off]]metic, the catechism and the
[[cut off]]iple of Christian religion." (Hugh
[[cut off]], The Present State of Virginia, ed.
[[cut off]]chard L. Morton, pp. 5-6).
[[cut off]]1724 it was noted that:
[[cut off]]me [Indians] indeed, after seeming
[[cut off]]ersion have apostatized and

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[[cut off]]own savage customs
and heathenish rites. A few of them have lived as servants among the English, or loitered and idled away their
laziness and mischief...now they are...taught to become worse than better by falling into the worst practices of vile nominal Christians, which they add to their own Indian manners and notions (Jones, 1724, pp. 60, 113-115).

In ca. 1770 another observer noted that the Indian graduates of William and Mary did not become "missionaries." Instead it was "common for them to elope several hundred miles to their native country, and there to resume their skins and savage way of life, making no further use of their learning....(Catesby, 1771, in Jones, p. 12).

'COLONIALIST' APPROACH TO INDIAN EDUCATION

This early Virginia experiment, although not strictly "higher: education, is significant [[cut off]]

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