ELEAZAR WHEELOCK
Toward the end of the 20th century, some people argued that using Indian names or identifying a school or sport team as “Braves” or “Indians” is inappropriate. Dartmouth, however has some claim, like the Carlisle Indians, to the Dartmouth Indians name given its history.
Eleazar Wheelock was an American Congregational minister, orator, and educator in Lebanon, Connecticut, for 35 years before founding Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. He had tutored Samson Occom, a Mohegan who became a Presbyterian minister and the first Native American to publish writings in English. Before founding Dartmouth, Wheelock founded and ran the Moor's Charity School in Connecticut to educate Native Americans. The college was primarily for the sons of American colonists.
