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The papers will now be part of the Mohegan Cultural Preservation Center.

Dartmouth College returned documents written by Samson Occom, containing some of the earliest written Mohegan text to the Mohegan Tribe.

Officials honor 18th century tribal icon who raised funds for college meant to educate Native Americans.

On Friday, April 1, around 600 students in their evening best walked down the steps of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) to experience its content in a…

M Carissa Gray, an associate English professor at Georgia State University, was removed from in-person teaching after she called school police on two students who showed up for class a few minutes late.

HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College will return the papers of Samson Occom to a Mohegan cultural center in Connecticut where Occom was a minister and a member of the Mohegan Tribe, the college's President Philip Hanlon said.

Sarah Harris, a Dartmouth alum and the vice chairperson of the Mohegan Tribal Council, said “with the return of his papers, Occom is coming back to our homelands and our people.”

Dartmouth College will return Samson Occom papers to Mohegan Cultural Center

Report: In 1763, preacher Eleazar Wheelock stole money collected for a school for Native students to found what would become Dartmouth College.

HANOVER — Dartmouth College will repatriate the papers of Samson Occom, a leading minister of the Great Awakening and a member of the Mohegan Tribe, to his homeland in Connecticut, announced by President Philip Hanlon last week. “The Mohegan People...