222 OUR FEDERAL LANDS 



One of the first obligations recognized as owing 

 to the Indians was that of education, but, except for 

 an appropriation of $500 to Dartmouth College in 

 1776, occasional small contributions to mission 

 schools, and $10,000 a year from 1820 to help vol- 

 unteer societies, little was accomplished before the 

 establishment of trade-schools in 1849. Carlisle 

 School in Pennsylvania, established in 1879, was the 

 first outside a reservation. Compare these with the 

 extensive educational developments of the present 

 time for which the government appropriates more 

 than five million dollars annually. 



Long before obligation was felt to educate, the 

 missionary spirit was manifest in many ways. Mis- 

 sionary work began during Coronado's invasion of 

 1542, the mailed soldiers seeking loot and the robed 

 priests seeking souls, hand in hand. Protestant mis- 

 sionary work began a century later in New England 

 under the preaching of John Eliot. In the far West, 

 the mission builders pushed northward up the Pa- 

 cific coast. In the East, outposts of civilization pene- 

 trating the wilderness westward fought Indians for 

 footholds while endeavoring to convert them to 

 Christianity. 



The Moravians were tfie real pioneers in Prot- 

 estant denominational work along educational lines, 

 followed by establishment of schools by Friends in 

 1795, Baptists in 1807, American Board (Congre- 

 gational and Presbyterian) in 1810, Episcopalians 

 in 1815, Methodists in 1816, Presbyterians (North) 



