![]() ![]() Five years later, in 1642, Harvard appointed him to its Board of Overseers, the University’s second-highest governing body - which by law long included the Massachusetts governor. John Endecott, a four-time Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and military commander, led the charge for the Pequot massacre. Twenty-seven years earlier, in 1637, more than 400 members of the Pequot tribe were killed in a massacre and the tribe was eliminated as a viable polity in southern New England. They were men of letters alongside English and Wôpanâak, Cheeshahteaumuck also spoke Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Joel Iacoomes, Class of 1665, another Native American student, matriculated to Harvard College the same year as Cheeshahteaumuck and was to be the class valedictorian, but died shortly before Commencement, killed in a shipwreck on his way to graduation.Ĭheeshahteaumuck and Iacoomes, members of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah), lived in the Indian College in Harvard Yard, in front of what is now Grays Hall. Coit ’71 and first displayed in 2010, this is a portrait of Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, Class of 1665, the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College. ![]() He stares straight ahead, his mouth stern and eyes probing. ![]() There’s a map on the wall behind him, and a satchel hanging in the corner of the room. Hanging in Annenberg Hall, among paintings of Harvard-affiliated Civil War heroes, is a portrait of a man with collarbone-length dark hair, holding an ink bottle and quill as he turns the page of a book. ![]()
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