Dartmouth Indians

How THESE generations of Dartmouth Indians survive and increase. And how short a time ago too it seems since the College was encouraging Indian boys to come here and go back to their own tribes and be teachers or missionaries. Peter Paul Osunkhirhine came as a student to Moor's Charity School and Dartmouth College in the early 1830's or late 20's. He went to the Presbytery of Champlain where he was ordained and thereafter became a preacher and a school master. Now only today there comes in the mail a letter from his granddaughter, Mrs. Bertha Wade of the Thomas Indian School of Iroquois, N. Y. She writes a very interesting letter about the family, asks for the College's information about her grandfather and then tells us that three of Peter Paul's daughters are living: Priscilla Landy Jamison, of West Salamanca, N. Y.; Mrs. Matilda Jamison of Red House, N. Y. and Mrs. Laura Miller, of Port Huron, Michigan. There are also grandsons and granddaughters, great grandsons and great granddaughters and great great grandsons and great great granddaughters. Peter Paul has been characterized as the exact type of Indian from whom Wheelock designed the school. He was learned, steady, a hard worker and a splendid teacher. He worked all his life among the Indian tribes, and the school he opened nearly one hundred years ago was closed only last year when his great grand nephew, Henry Masta, was retired by the Canadian government.

The cover this month is from a photograph made by Ralph Sanborn '17. The subject is Bartlett Tower in the College Park, on a day in early March.