Memorandum regarding the Indian College and Harvard's legal obligation to American Indian students, 1973.

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Memorandum regarding the Indian College and Harvard's legal obligation to American Indian students, 1973.

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Consists of a 10 pp. memorandum from Professors Dawson, Katz and Turner of the Law School relating to the obligations which Harvard now has regarding Indian students because of the bequest for the Indian College in the 17th century; also one letter from Samuel Eliot Morison. Included in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.

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