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Building a Unit

Combatives Program *

TEXTO e FOTOGRAFIA: MAJ ROBERT M. SQUIER **

In June of 1744, the College of William and young Men, while with you, would be very expensive to
Mary invited the Native Americans of the Six Na- you. We are convinc’d, therefore, that you mean to do
tions to send 12 of their young men to their ins- us good by your proposal; and we thank you heartily.
titution to receive a civilized education. The of- But you, who are wise, must know that different nations
fer was intended to bridge the gap between the have different conceptions of things; and you will the-
Europeans and the Native Americans in hope of refore not take it amiss, if our ideas of this kind of edu-
assimilating the tribes into the growing colonial cation happen not to be the same with yours. We have
population. The following is the reply received had some experience of it. Several of our young people
from the chiefs of the Six Nations: were formerly brought up at the College of the Northern
“Sirs, Provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences; but,
We know that you highly esteem the kind of lear- when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ig-
ning taught in Colleges, and that the maintenance of our norant of every means of living in the woods, unable to
* Artigo original publicado na revista Infantry (Spring 2021, Volume 110 Edition 1), do Exército dos Estados Unidos da América
** MAJ Rob Squier served as the executive officer for the Department of Physical Education (DPE) at the United States Military Academy at West
Point. He is an Army combatives master trainer and the senior military combatives instructor in DPE. MAJ Squier has a master’s degree in kinesio-
logy (study of the mechanics of body movements) from the University of Virginia and combat leadership experience in both Iraq and Afghanistan.