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  1. Contents
  2. List of Figures
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Abbreviations
  5. Preface
  6. Introduction
  7. The Russ Moses Residential School Memoir
  8. Part 1
    1. 1 - “To Shake Off the Rude Habits of Savage Life”:1 The Foundations of the Mohawk Institute to the Early 1900s
    2. 2 - “The Difficulties of Making an Indian into a White Man, Were Not Thoroughly Appreciated”: The Mohawk Institute, 1904 to the Present
  9. Part 2
    1. 3 - The Indian Normal School: The Role of the Mohawk Institute in the Training of Indigenous Teachers in the Late Nineteenth Century
    2. 4 - Teaching Control and Service: The Use of Military Training at the Mohawk Institute
    3. 5 - “New Weapons”: Race, Indigeneity, and Intelligence Testing at the Mohawk Institute, 1920–1949
  10. Part 3
    1. 6 - A “Model” School: An Architectural History of the Mohawk Institute
    2. 7 - The Stewardship, Preservation, and Commemoration of the Mohawk Institute
  11. Part 4
    1. 8 - Ten Years of Student Resistance at the Mohawk Institute, 1903–1913
    2. 9 - ęhǫwadihsadǫ ne:ˀhniˀ gadigyenǫ:gyeˀs ganahaǫgwęˀ ęyagǫnhehgǫhǫ:k / They Buried Them, but They the Seeds Floated Around What Will Sustain Them
  12. Part 5
    1. 10 - A Model to Follow? The Sussex Vale Indian School
    2. 11 - Robert Ashton, the New England Company, and the Mohawk Institute, 1872–1910
    3. 12 - The Lands of the Mohawk Institute: Robert Ashton and the Demise of the New England Company’s “Station,” 1891–1922
  13. Part 6
    1. 13 - Life at the Mohawk Institute During the 1860s
    2. 14 - Collecting the Evidence: Restoration and Archaeology at the Mohawk Institute
    3. 15 - Collective Trauma and the Role of Religion in the Mohawk Institute Experience
    4. 16 - Concluding Voices: Survivor Stories of Life Behind the Bricks
  14. Closing Poems
  15. Appendix 1 - History of Six Nations Education
  16. Appendix 2 - Mohawk Institute Students Who Became Teachers
  17. Suggested Reading
  18. Acknowledgements
  19. Contributors
  20. Index

Part 1

Historical Overview and Context of the Mohawk Institute

Black and white photograph: Oval-shaped metal medallion with a decorative edge that reads “New England Company Incorporated 1661.” In the middle, an Indigenous man holding up a book is pictured, with a banner above him that reads “COME OVER AND HELP US.” Behind the man there are various nature items such as water and trees.

Figure 0.5. New England Company medallion.

Source: Woodland Cultural Centre

Black and white photograph: Older photograph shows a man outdoors leaning on a fence beside a long driveway that leads to a wooden chapel. In the left background, there is a large brick building which may be the Mohawk Institute.

Figure 1.1. A nineteenth-century photo of the Mohawk Chapel, right, and possibly the original Mohawk Institute on the left.

Source: Richard Hill; photograph of an original photograph at the Mohawk Chapel

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