Tag: Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck

  • Nation & World

    A case study in portraiture

    For 15 years, painter Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, has been quietly changing the walls of campus by adding dozens of portraits that better reflect Harvard’s diversity.

    5 minutes
    Stephen Coit, the artist of the Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project, is pictured in his Cambridge home.
  • Nation & World

    Being true to himself

    Damon Clark ’17 will graduate with a greater knowledge of Navajo history and culture and a renewed pride in his indigenous identity.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Native Americans at Harvard

    Native Americans from many tribes make up a small but vital segment of the Harvard community.

    8 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard’s Indian College poet

    With the discovery of a poem missing for 300 years, two Harvard graduate students have filled in some missing blanks on Benjamin Larnell, the last student of the colonial era associated with Harvard’s Indian College.

    9 minutes
  • Nation & World

    They dig the past

    Harvard Summer School students broke ground June 29 for the biennial archaeology class investigating the long history of Harvard Yard. Students will resume the search for traces of the Harvard Indian College, where the College’s first Indian students lived and studied.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A degree delivered

    Harvard awards degree to Native American who completed studies in 1665 but died before Commencement.

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  • Nation & World

    Honor for Native American

    Harvard University plans to honor Joel Iacoomes, one of the first Native Americans ever to attend the College, with a special posthumous degree at its 2011 Commencement exercises on May 26. Iacoomes died shortly before Commencement in 1665.

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  • Nation & World

    Native American honored

    The Harvard Foundation on Dec. 16 proudly unveiled the portrait of Caleb Cheeshahteamuck, a member of the Wampanoag tribe, and the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College, in 1665.

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  • Nation & World

    Deep into Harvard’s roots

    Fall 2009 archaeology dig in Harvard Yard kicked off with a ceremony involving regional Native American leaders.

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