Author: Karyn Saemann
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
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Availability: First published March 4,
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Summary: Electa Quinney loved to learn. Growing up in the early s 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 , 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. Electa&#;s life provides a detailed window onto pioneer Wisconsin an
Wisconsin&#;s first public schoolteacher was Electa Quinney, a member of the Stockbridge-Munsee band of Mohicans. Quinney had come to Wisconsin in the massive Indian removal from New York in She wanted to teach the children of the Stockbridge-Munsee settlement around Kaukauna. In , she opened the first school in the state that did not charge an enrollment fee. The school gave poor families who could not afford to pay for schooling their children a free education.
Early life
Electa Quinney was born around [note 1] in Clinton, New York, into the Housatonic or Stockbridge tribe. She was schooled at a Quaker school on Long Island, New York, where she spent four years, and in Clinton at the Clinton Female Seminary, which opened in Later she studied for six years at the women&#;s seminary in Cornwall, Connecticut. She was the sister of John Wannuaucon Quinney who led her tribe west when they relocated from New York to the Menominee lands. Her father was probably Joseph Quinney, a sachem of the tribe while her mother, Margaret, was the daughter of David Nau-nau-neek-nuk who was also a Stockbridge sachem. Quinney&#;s spirit name in her native Mahican language was Wuh-weh-wee-nee-me
Watch the new Wisconsin Biographies story about Electa Quinney, Mohican teacher and mentor
Online now and on PBS Wisconsin at p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7 —immediately following Finding Your Roots
PBS Wisconsin Education is excited to launch the newest addition to the Wisconsin Biographies collection!
Electa Quinney: Mohican Teacher and Mentor was created in collaboration with the Stockbridge-Munsee Community to share Quinney’s legacy of generosity and her dedication to education.
Watch this wonderful animated short online now.This entry in the Wisconsin Biographies series will also be broadcast on PBS Wisconsin at p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 7 - immediately following Finding Your Roots.
Known as the first public school teacher in Wisconsin and a notable mentor in the Mohican community, the biography explores how Quinney and the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohicans used both traditional Native and non-Native education to keep their traditions alive and preserve their ways of life.
Wisconsin Biographies is a collection of free-to-use, educational, online media resources that enriches social studies and literacy curriculum using the stories of notable
Electa Quinney: Mohican Teacher and Mentor
[lively string music] [flute music, horse snorting] - Narrator: Electa Quinney was heartbroken to leave her home.
She was barely ten years old, and she and five other Mohican girls were going far away to school.
It would be a long time before they would see their families again.
But they knew that education was their best chance at surviving.
To understand why, we have to go back to the years before Electa was born Electa and her family were Mohicans.
The Mohicans lived in a thriving community in the state now known as New York.
But by the s, more and more European invaders were coming to America to seize land and resources.
Colonization, war, and European diseases decimated the Mohican population and homelands.
In order to survive, the Mohicans were forced to move.
In the s, they decided to live alongside some English colonists and form the town that became Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
There, the Stockbridge Mohicans raised families, farmed and hunted, and participated in town life.
When the Revolutionary War broke out, the Stockbridge Mohicans fought alongside the colonists against the British.
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