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Cultivating the rosebuds : the education of women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909  Cover Image Book Book

Cultivating the rosebuds : the education of women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 / Devon A. Mihesuah.

Summary:

Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0252019539 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780252019531 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: xii, 212 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-194) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foundations -- Establishing the seminary -- The early years : 1851-76 -- Teachers, curriculum, and administration : 1876-1909 -- Life at the seminary : 1876-1909 -- Medicine for the rosebuds : health care at the seminary -- Farewell to the seminary : graduates and former students.
Subject: Cherokee National Female Seminary.
Cherokee Indians > Education.
Cherokee women.

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 97.6 .C35 M54 1993 2245036 Stacks Reshelving -
Lummi Library E 97.6 .C35 M54 1993 2245055 Stacks Reshelving -

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