Ebook: Electa Quinney Stockbridge teacher
Author: Quinney Electa, Saemann Karyn
- Tags: Biographie, Kindersachbuch, Indian women teachers, Indian women teachers--Wisconsin, Lehrerin, Stockbridge-Indianer, Stockbridge Indians, Stockbridge Indians--Wisconsin, Biographies, Quinney Electa -- 1807-1882, Stockbridge Indians -- Wisconsin -- Biography, Indian women teachers -- Wisconsin -- Biography, Wisconsin, Quinney Electa -- 1807-1882
- Series: Badger biographies
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
- City: Madison;Wisconsin
- Language: English
- epub
Electa Quinney loved to learn. Growing up in the early 1800s in New York, she went to some of the best boarding schools. There she learned how to read, write, and solve tough math problems—she even learned how to do needlework. Electa decided early on that she wanted to become a teacher so she could pass her knowledge on to others.
But life wasn't simple. Electa was a Stockbridge Indian, and her tribe was being pressured by the government and white settlers to move out of the state. So in 1828, Electa and others in her tribe moved to Wisconsin. Almost as soon as she arrived, Electa got to work again, teaching in a log building that also served as the local church. In that small school in the woods, Electa became Wisconsin's very first public school teacher, educating the children of Stockbridge–Munsee Band of the Mohican Indians as well as the sons and daughters of nearby white settlers and missionaries.