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ACQTC has been working cooperatively with Quinnipiac University faculty, alumni and students as well as their Librarian to develop programs and inter-relationships as well as hands-on opportunities for higher learning.
For example, QTC Press E-Media Publications has donated copies of We The People Called Quinnipiac, The Complete Language Guide, and Following the Footprints of a Stone Giant on CDs, and other items in hard copy, as part of our pilot educational-outreach program.
Ben Page, Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University taught a class during 2007-2008 called "Native Americans in the American Community." Students at QU compiled studies, did research, and participated in a community-service cross-cultural initiative. QU students helped ACQTC catalog our artifacts and collections at the Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum under the supervision of Gordon Fox-Running Brainerd, Bear Clan Medicine Man and Curator of the museum's Quinnipiac collections. At the conclusion of the class each student purchased a copy of We The People Called Quinnipiac, which professor Ben Page stressed accomplished two things. First, it was a gesture of gratitude from the students for providing them with an actual place within our own society where they had access to a collection of ancient artifacts, rare documents, studies, newspaper clippings, photos, etc. unrivaled by any private or state collections. And, second, the students got to come away with a keepsake of all this that they can share with others in the future.
ACQTC is currently applying for local, state and federal grants in order to expand this program to other universities, schools, libraries and historical societies without charge to those institutions.
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