The Seneca Man Who Wrote The Surrender Terms At Appomattox – Then Became America’s First Native Commissioner Of Indian Affairs
He emerged from it with solid grounding in the subjects that any educated American man of the period would have studied: history, mathematics, rhetoric, natural philosophy.
He was also, crucially, a skilled writer — his correspondence and official documents show a man who could express complex ideas clearly, organize arguments logically, and adapt his register to the audience he was addressing.
What his education did not give him was unmediated access to the institutional world those skills were supposed to open.
The mission schools educated their students for a world that was not always prepared to receive them.
The skills were real.
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