In June, 1744, the Governor of the colony of Pennsylvania arranged a council of delegates from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Maryland to meet with sachems of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Indians in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The meeting opened with the colonial representatives offering to send eight or ten young Indians, selected by the Five Nations, to Williamsburg, in order to give them a good education. Canassatego, the principal Iroquois chief, rose to speak for the Indians. He said that Indians had already had experience with the white man's schools and that their young men had returned to their tribes neither white men nor Indians. He said that if the whites would choose one or two dozen of their boys, the Indians would send them to Onondaga, where the great council of the Iroquois would take care of their education and would rear them in the best manner to make men of them.

Therefore, it is obvious that even in colonial times Indians have felt that there was something lacking in the white man's idea of education.