Synopsis
“Now, Brothers, I have the great pleasure to inform you that your good friends, the Quakers, have formed a wise plan to show your young men and boys the most useful practices of the white people. The Quakers and the good men they employ will ask nothing from you, neither land nor money nor skins nor furs, for all the good they will render to you.”
—Timothy Pickering, U.S. Secretary of State, 1796
For over 150 years, the Quakers who worked with the Allegany Senecas of western New York kept this promise. While little has been previously researched or written about Tunesassa, the Quaker School, this institution played a prominent role in the childhoods of tribal members for many generations.
In this large-format account, quotes from actual correspondence and Meeting minutes are used extensively, telling the story of Tunesassa in the words of those who actually lived it. Also included in this edition are lists of students and staff from throughout the school’s long history.
