<P> There are a number of documented cases where diseases were deliberately spread among Native Americans as a form of biological warfare . The most well - known example occurred in 1763, when Sir Jeffrey Amherst, Commander - in - Chief of the Forces of the British Army, wrote praising the use of smallpox - infected blankets to "extirpate" the Indian race . Blankets infected with smallpox were given to Native Americans besieging Fort Pitt . The effectiveness of the attempt is unclear . </P> <P> In 1634, Fr . Andrew White of the Society of Jesus established a mission in what is now the state of Maryland, and the purpose of the mission, stated through an interpreter to the chief of an Indian tribe there, was "to extend civilization and instruction to his ignorant race, and show them the way to heaven ." Fr . Andrew's diaries report that by 1640, a community had been founded which they named St. Mary's, and the Indians were sending their children there "to be educated among the English ." This included the daughter of the Piscataway Indian chief Tayac, which exemplifies not only a school for Indians, but either a school for girls, or an early co-ed school . The same records report that in 1677, "a school for humanities was opened by our Society in the centre of (Maryland), directed by two of the Fathers; and the native youth, applying themselves assiduously to study, made good progress . Maryland and the recently established school sent two boys to St. Omer who yielded in abilities to few Europeans, when competing for the honor of being first in their class . So that not gold, nor silver, nor the other products of the earth alone, but men also are gathered from thence to bring those regions, which foreigners have unjustly called ferocious, to a higher state of virtue and cultivation ." </P> <P> Through the mid-17th century the Beaver Wars were fought over the fur trade between the Iroquois and the Hurons, the northern Algonquians, and their French allies . During the war the Iroquois destroyed several large tribal confederacies, including the Huron, Neutral, Erie, Susquehannock, and Shawnee, and became dominant in the region and enlarged their territory . </P> <P> In 1727, the Sisters of the Order of Saint Ursula founded Ursuline Academy in New Orleans, which is currently the oldest continuously operating school for girls and the oldest Catholic school in the United States . From the time of its foundation, it offered the first classes for Native American girls, and would later offer classes for female African - American slaves and free women of color . </P>

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