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Article: Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World.(Book review)
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- Michigan Historical Review
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- March 22, 2008
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Margaret Connell Szasz. Scottish Highlanders and Native Americans: Indigenous Education in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2007. Pp. 304. Bibliography. Illustrations. Index. Notes. Cloth, $34.95.
This book does not mention Michigan, but its subject matter is relevant to the history of the Native Peoples who lived in what would become the territory and the state. Szasz, a historian of formal education and Native Peoples in North America, has attempted a challenging comparative study. It is based on the records of the Scottish Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge (SSPCK), which was active in Scotland from ...