Cheated again

"I am afraid the poor Indians will never stand a good chance with the English in their land controversies, because they are very poor, they have no money. Money is almighty now-a-days, and the Indians have no learning, no wit, no cunning: the English have all."

— Samson Occom (1723-1792), a member of the Mohegan tribe in Connecticut, \ was a minister, teacher and missionary who was instrumental in raising the money in London that ended up helping to found Dartmouth College, in Hanover, N.H. But the fundraising, to his surprise and dismay, was actually a kind of bait-and-switch operation.

In Columbia, Conn., the Moor’s Indian Charity School building, built in 1754 but later altered in Greek Revival style. The school was the predecessor of Dartmouth College.