Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 Devon Mihesuah explores the school's history, examining curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy and showing how these elements affected the 2,300 women who were educated. Many
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| Title | : | Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909 |
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| Rating | : | 4.68 (908 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252066774 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1997-08-01 |
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Editorial : About the Author Devon Abbott Mihesuah is a professor of applied Indigenous studies and history at Northern Arizona University. She is the author of "Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism" and the coeditor of "Indigenizing the Academy: Transforming Scholarship and Empowering Communities," both published by the University of Nebraska Press.
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. Unusual among Indian schools because it was founded by neither the federal government nor by missionary agencies, the school offered a rigorous curriculum from elementary grades through high school that was patterned after that of Mount Holyoke Female Seminary. It offered no instruction in the Cherokee language or culture, but it was open only to full- and mixed-blood Cherokee girls. Many of the seminarians were acculturated Cherokees who welcomed the opportunity to study in an environment where "white ways" were held up as the ideal. More traditional Cherokees found the atmosphere oppressive. Devon Mihesuah explores the school's history, examining curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy and showing how these elements affected the 2,300 women who were educated
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