Mashpee and Harvard: Braided Histories

Harvard HDS

Goals of self-governance and perseverance of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's (MWT's) autonomy have intertwined with Harvard's founding educational and religious mission for 400 years. Collaboratively conceived with members of the MWT Historic Preservation Commission, this course explores indigenous, English, and American responses to the university's mandate to educate "English and Indian youth," in "knowledge and godliness." Reversing the longstanding practice of Wampanoag…