With laughter, drumming, and a few tears, the Mohegan Tribe formally received the papers of their ancestor, Samson Occom, the 18th-century scholar and Presbyterian minister who traveled to Great Britain to raise money for the school that would become Dartmouth College. A delegation from Dartmouth, led by President Philip J. Hanlon '77, presented the archival collection of letters, journals, sermons, and other texts to Tribal leaders on Wednesday at an outdoor ceremony at the Mohegan Church in Uncasville, Conn., on land that the Mohegan people have lived on since before colonization. |