Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909

by Devon A. Mihesuah

Book Overview

Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association

Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominaional Cherokee Female Seminary was one of the most important schools in the history of American Indian education. Devon Mihesuah explores its curriculum, faculty, administration, and educational philosophy.
"[An] important work. . . . It tells...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252066774
• ISBN13: 9780252066771
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"