About the Indian College Students
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Name
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Tribe
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Home
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Class
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Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck
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Aquinnah Wampanoag
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Holmes Hole, Martha’s Vineyard
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1665
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Joel Iacoombs
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Aquinnah Wampanoag
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Martha’s Vineyard
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1665
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John Wampus
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Nipmuc
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near Grafton
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1669
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"Eleazar“
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Wampanoag
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unknown
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1679
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Benjamin Larnell
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Wampanoag
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unknown
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1716
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Separated from family and community, Native students faced some of the same adversities that they would have at home. Englishmen were largely immune from the epidemic diseases that deeply affected Native peoples, whose villages could be wiped out by smallpox or other afflictions.
It is estimated that 75–90% of the local Native population succumbed to these early epidemics. Three of the five Indian College students were among the casualties.
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