Английская Википедия:Electa Quinney

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Electa Quinney (Mahican name: Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew Quan-au-kaunt) (1798 – 1885) was a Mohican and member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Community. She founded one of the first schools in what would become Wisconsin and was the first woman to teach in a public school in the territory which would be Wisconsin.

Early life

Electa Quinney was born around 1798Шаблон:Sfn[note 1] in Clinton, New York,Шаблон:Sfn into the Housatonic or Stockbridge tribe.Шаблон:Sfn She was schooled at a Quaker school on Long Island, New York, where she spent four years,Шаблон:Sfn and in Clinton at the Clinton Female Seminary, which opened in 1814.Шаблон:Sfn Later she studied for six years at the women's seminary in Cornwall, Connecticut.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She was the sister of John Wannuaucon QuinneyШаблон:Sfn who led her tribe west when they relocated from New York to the Menominee lands.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Quinney's name in her native Mahican language was Wuh-weh-wee-nee-meew Quan-au-kaunt.Шаблон:Sfn

Career

Upon completing her education around 1821, Quinney taught at a mission school in New York for six years. She relocated west around 1827 and by 1828 had established a school at Statesburg, near Grande Kawkawlin. Quinney taught between forty and fifty students at her school, which was the first public school in WisconsinШаблон:Sfn making her the first woman school teacher in the Wisconsin part of Michigan Territory.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She taught four classes in a log school house,Шаблон:Sfn which was connected with a Presbyterian mission.Шаблон:Sfn Though most of her students were Indian, they studied in English and she used standard texts to teach arithmetic, geography, language, oration, penmanship and spelling.Шаблон:Sfn

In 1832, the Methodists re-established contact with the Oneida Nation after their relocation to Wisconsin. Their first missionary, Daniel Adams, a Canadian Mohawk established a mission school near Green Bay, at which Quinney became the first teacherШаблон:Sfn that same year. Around 1835, Quinney and Adams married and moved to MissouriШаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn where they had three sons: Alexander (born 1838), Daniel (born 1840) and John C. Adams (born 1843),Шаблон:Sfn who would become a politician and who fought for the overturn of the 1871 Stockbridge-Munsee constitution until 1893 when his efforts finally succeeded.Шаблон:Sfn Daniel's mission was with the Seneca Indians, who occupied a tract on the Neosho River in the Missouri TerritoryШаблон:Sfn and were later moved to a section of the Cherokee Reservation in the northernmost corner of Indian Territory working the Seneca Circuit.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Daniel died in 1843,Шаблон:Sfn but Adams continued working for the Methodist Mission Service.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn

Adams married a second time with a Cherokee newspaper editor,Шаблон:Sfn John Walker Candy,Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn whose Cherokee name was Dâguwadâ.Шаблон:Sfn His first wife was Mary Ann Watie, sister of Stand Watie.Шаблон:Sfn He had begun his career as a printer in New Echota, Georgia first serving as an apprentice on the Cherokee Phoenix. John came to the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory one year prior to the removal to establish the printing office at the Union Mission. In 1840, he printed the earliest volume of Choctaw laws and helped relocate the press to Park Hill, where he printed the 1842 Cherokee Constitution and Laws. John and Adams married on Christmas day in 1845 in the Seneca landsШаблон:Sfn and he remained with the Union Mission press until 1847. John then worked at the Cherokee Advocate when it was established in Tahlequah. In 1855 he became the printer for the Baptist Mission Press.Шаблон:Sfn By 1860, the couple had returned to Wisconsin and were living in Stockbridge,Шаблон:Sfn though John's 1868 death occurred near Webbers Falls, Indian Territory.Шаблон:Sfn In 1880, she was living in Stockbridge with her son John.Шаблон:Sfn

Quinney died in 1885 in Stockbridge, Wisconsin.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn She is buried in the Stockbridge Indian Cemetery, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, though her stone is missing.Шаблон:Sfn Posthumously, the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee was named in her honor.Шаблон:Sfn

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