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Mihesuah, Devon A. – 1993
This book traces the history of the Cherokee Female Seminary, established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 near Tahlequah (Oklahoma). Unusual among Indian schools because it was founded by neither the federal government nor missionaries, the school offered a rigorous curriculum from elementary grades through high school, patterned after that of…
Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools
