American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 187-201
Description
An investigation into the successful implementation of a Cherokee Female Seminary, modeled after seminaries in Massachusetts. The Cherokee Nation embracing a non-Indigenous education with fewer tribal traditions to adhere to leading to less feelings of alienation for the students.
Canadian Historical Review, vol. 53, no. 3, September 1972, pp. 272-288
Description
Discusses how officials excluded the blacks from campaigns promoting settlement in the West, resisted their attempts to take advantage of liberal customs, homestead, and citizenship regulations, and eventually closed the border to them completely.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, Spring, 1987, pp. 97-125
Description
Looks at the evolution of the Cherokee legal system, from traditional blood feuds to a traditional tribal court system. However, the signing of the New Echota Treaty in 1835 saw the return to blood feuds within the Cherokee Nation.
American Indian Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 3, Summer, 1987, pp. 241-254
Description
Using accounts from two former boarding school students to examine and compare their personal, social and culture experiences within a boarding school environment in Oklahoma.