"Letters, Pen, and Tilling the Field"

About this book

In 1798, the Society of Friends' Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Indian Committee sent three young men to reside among the Seneca Indians on the Allegany reservation in the state of New York and the private land grant of chief warrior Cornplanter in adjacent Pennsylvania. Their goal was to provide the Senecas with agricultural, mechanical, and literary instruction in order to equip the Senecas for self-sufficiency in a rapidly changing world. Through their instruction, Friends altered Seneca religion and culture--From the author's abstract.