Cherokee National Female Seminary

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Name (Latin)
Cherokee National Female Seminary
Other forms of name
Cherokee Female Seminary
Cherokee National Female Seminary, Tahlequah, Okla
Park Hill (Okla.). Cherokee National Female Seminary
Tahlequah (Okla.). Cherokee National Female Seminary
Associated country
United States
Field of activity
Education, Higher
Women--Education (Higher)
Associated Language
eng
Biographical or Historical Data
Estab. 11/26/1846
Superseded in 1909 by the Northeastern State Normal School
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 138395864
Wikidata: Q5092145
Library of congress: n 82062438
HAI10: 000410592
Sources of Information
  • Information from 678 converted Dec. 8, 2014(Estab. 11/26/1846; Superseded in 1909 by the Northeastern State Normal School)
  • Bass, Mrs. A. L. (B.) A Cherokee daughter of Mount ... 1937.
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Wikipedia description:

The Cherokee Female Seminary was built by the Cherokee Nation in 1889 near Tahlequah, Indian Territory. It replaced their original girls' seminary, the first Cherokee Female Seminary, that had burned down on Easter Sunday two years before. The Seminary was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. The Cherokee Council chose to rebuild the school on a 40-acre (160,000 m2) site north of Tahlequah, Oklahoma near Hendricks Spring. Two years later, on May 7, 1889, the dedication ceremonies were held in honor of the new building. The school was modeled after other female seminaries of the time.The Female Seminary was owned and operated by the Cherokee Nation until March 6, 1909, after Oklahoma had been admitted as a state as in 1907, and tribal land claims were extinguished. At this point, the state converted the seminary into a normal school. The Cherokee Nation ran both a male and female seminary in this territory, showing the importance placed on education within the Nation. Female seminaries were a larger cultural movement across the United States in the mid-nineteenth century, by which time they had taken over the role played traditionally by the boarding school, which had offered a more family-like atmosphere.

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