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Education is Key


“Possibly you may have the satisfaction to find … that all the difference between us and them consists only in the color of the skin.”

Oneida Chief Shenendoah and other Oneida leaders wrote those words to the Regents of New York in 1793, congratulating them on chartering the Hamilton Oneida Academy. Two years later, on Jan. 31, The Hamilton Oneida Academy was chartered.

The Academy, which later became Hamilton College, was founded by the Rev. Samuel Kirkland, missionary to the Oneidas. The college was erected on land granted to Kirkland for his service during the Revolutionary War by the Oneidas and the State of New York.
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