Native American and Indigenous Studies: Williams College and Native People

In this exhibit, Library Special Collections contributes to the campus-wide dialog sparked by the Log mural, and brings historic context to the relationship between “Eph” and Hendrick, and between Williams College and Native peoples. Library collections reveal the presence of Native Americans in eighteenth-century real estate transactions with Mohicans, in the cornerstones of the college’s rare book collection, and in the persistent tradition of“playing Indian.” By displaying documentation of the many ways in which Native Americans are represented at Williams, we invite viewers to “take due notice” of Native history and of Native presence (and absence) in the campus community today.

This will provided for the care and education of the "Indians at Stockbridge." It was superseded by his will of 1755, which made no mention of Stockbridge Mohicans.