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Mass invited Indians to study at Harvard. The Indians replied that they had sent some of their young braves to study there years earlier, but on their return “they were absolutely good for nothing, being neither acquainted with the true methods for killing deer, trapping beaver, or surprising the enemy.” They offered instead to educate a dozen or so white children in the ways of the Indians “and make men of them.”