[nativestudies-l] EXHIBIT: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student Life at Colonial Harvard

[Alyssa Mt. Pleasant]

/Digging Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and 
Student Life at Colonial Harvard /

Location: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard 
University, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Harvard Square

Exhibit Dates: November 10, 2008 to January 2010

Phone: 617-495-1027

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology presents a new 
exhibition on the archaeology of Harvard Yard entitled*/ Digging 
Veritas: The Archaeology and History of the Indian College and Student 
Life at Colonial Harvard/**.*

Through archaeological finds from Harvard Yard, historic maps, and more, 
the exhibition reveals how students lived at Colonial Harvard, and the 
role of the Indian College in Harvard's early years.

Student archaeologists unearthed evidence of colonial Harvard as a 
landscape shaped by social and religious tensions---tensions that 
affected everything from Native American and English settler 
relationships to the everyday routines of student life.  As the students 
searched for meaning in the material remains of Harvard students of the 
past, three themes emerged: literacy and the Indian College; rule 
(breaking) and religion; and negotiations of social status. Who knew 
small fragments buried below ground could reveal so much?

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