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Cherokee Female Seminary

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passed an act providing for the creation of Northeastern State Normal School at Tahlequah, Oklahoma. The act also authorized the purchase of the building, land, and equipment of the Cherokee Female Seminary from the Cherokee Tribal Government. At the start of the next academic year, on September 14,
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The Seminary consisted of a large building on a hill that housed up to 175 students plus staff and stewards. At the new site's creation in 1889, the building had electric lights, steam-powered heating, and water supplied from a local spring. It housed a parlor, a library, a kitchen, a chapel, and
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The Cherokee Nation increasingly valued education throughout the 17th century and set aside proceeds from land cessions to the United States in 1819 to be invested in education for their children. The Cherokee Female Seminary was established alongside the Cherokee Male Seminary during the annual
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and Sarah Worcester. Miss Florence Wilson served as the principal of the Cherokee Female Seminary at both its original and rebuilt site from 1875 to 1901. She is regarded by many of the teachers and alumni as the most influential figure in the school's history.
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High School students took the following courses over four years: English, US History, Physiology, Arithmetic, Latin, Botany, Algebra, General History, Geometry, Physics, Civics, and Chemistry. Instrumental and vocal music were offered for an additional charge.
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The seminary also had a large focus on Christianity and its principles were widespread in the curriculum. Church attendance was mandatory for students. Students were also taught domestic skills, like sewing, as endorsed by the US federal government.
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The building now houses classrooms along with academic and faculty offices. It was the first campus classroom building wired for multimedia instruction. At the main entrance of the building are three murals painted in the 1930s as a
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style, complete with fortress-like turrets flanking the main entrance and a clock tower that resembles a church steeple and rises two stories above the rest of the building. In 1994, the building was completely restored.
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the state held its first classes at the newly founded Northeastern State Normal School, primarily intended to train teachers of elementary grades. The institution has been developed over the decades and is now
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attended the first inception of the Seminary, before it burned down. She is believed to be the first indigenous Oklahoman woman to earn a Ph.D. She later returned to teach at the new Cherokee Female Seminary.
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The seminary began by offering the four high school years and eventually expanded to grades 1-12, with grades 1-5 becoming the "primary department" and 6-8 the "preparatory department".
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bedrooms. The staff included teachers and a medical superintendent as Cherokee social progress placed an increasing emphasis on providing quality healthcare alongside education.
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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
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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
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What is now called Seminary Hall, in honor of the Cherokee Seminary, is the oldest building on NSU's campus. It was built in 1889 by St. Louis architect
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was the valedictorian of the class of 1855 and taught in the Cherokee School system for almost forty years. Another graduate from the first school was
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session of the Cherokee Nation's National Council in November 1846. The Female Seminary opened to students in 1850, one year before the Male Seminary.
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The Cherokee Nation ran both a male and female seminary in this territory, showing the importance placed on education within the Nation.
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was an Oklahoman businesswoman who attended the Seminary. She is remembered as the first female oil operator in Oklahoman history.
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newspaper, up to three thousand people attended the reopening celebrations in a precession that totaled a mile long.
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The first class to graduate from the Cherokee Female Seminary had two students, Tennie Steele Fuller and
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Cherokee Female Seminary, Northeastern Oklahoma State University Campus, Tahlequah, Cherokee County, OK
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The building was renovated and upgraded in 2020, with the work aided by a $ 4 million grant from the
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After a fire burned down the original site, a new building opened in 1889. According to the
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Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851–1909
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When the state converted the seminary into a normal school, the new State Legislature of
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The Cherokee Council chose to rebuild the school on a 40-acre (160,000 m) site north of
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The Cherokee Female Seminary was located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, a small city near the
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graduated in 1902, taught for several years, and participated in suffrage parades.
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Students at the New Cherokee Female Seminary from the Cherokee Heritage Center
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
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School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Oklahoma
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in Massachusetts and its first two teachers were alumni of the school,
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Serving the nation: Cherokee sovereignty and social welfare, 1800-1907
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Cherokee Female Seminary graduating class of 1902, photographed by
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National Register of Historic Places in Cherokee County, Oklahoma
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History of the Cherokee Indians Old Families and Their Genealogy
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and public schools and was the capital of the Cherokee Nation.
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The Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah was designed after
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Seminary Hall at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah
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United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians (1939–present)
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Cherokee Nation (1794–1907) buildings and structures
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Cherokee Female Seminary is located in Oklahoma
Cherokee Female Seminary is located in the United States
Tahlequah
Oklahoma
35°55′13″N 94°58′12″W / 35.92028°N 94.97000°W / 35.92028; -94.97000
Charles E. Illsley
73001558
Tahlequah
Indian Territory
first Cherokee Female Seminary
National Register of Historic Places
Tahlequah
Cherokee Nation
normal school
Female seminaries
boarding school
Ozark Mountains
Cherokee Male Seminary
Three students at the New Cherokee Female Seminary
Mount Holyoke
Ellen Whitmore

Jennie Ross Cobb
Cherokee
Cherokee Advocate
Oklahoma
Northeastern State University
Seminary Hall building on the campus of Northeastern State University
Charles E. Illsley

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