Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . 37; Willstown, from 1823 to1839; Candys Creek, from 1824 to 1837; Red Clay, from 1835 to1837; Running Waters, from 1835 to 1836. Among the Cherokeeswest of the Mississippi: Dwight, 1821, transferred from Arkan-sas, 1829, and continued to 1860; Mulberry, 1828, transferred fromArkansas, 1829, to Fairfield, and continued to 1860; Forks of Illi-nois, 1830, to Park Hill, 1836, and continued to 1860. The two 264 MUSKOGE
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . 37; Willstown, from 1823 to1839; Candys Creek, from 1824 to 1837; Red Clay, from 1835 to1837; Running Waters, from 1835 to 1836. Among the Cherokeeswest of the Mississippi: Dwight, 1821, transferred from Arkan-sas, 1829, and continued to 1860; Mulberry, 1828, transferred fromArkansas, 1829, to Fairfield, and continued to 1860; Forks of Illi-nois, 1830, to Park Hill, 1836, and continued to 1860. The two 264 MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA schools first mentioned were boarding schools, but that at ParkHill was a day school. To the founders and supporters of these benevolent institu-tions and to the active laborers, male and female, who endured thetrials and privations and anxiety, and some of them imprisonmentitself, and whose mortal remains are mingled dust to dust in thisland of ours today, let due recognition be given and full gratitudebe awarded. MAIN BUILDING, NORTHEASTEEN STATE NORMAL, TAHLEQUAHFormerly Cherokee Female Seminary—Largest building ever erected by an Indian Tribe. CHAPTER XVII TRIBAL SCHOOLS CHEROKEES MOST ADVANCED THE CHEROKEE MALE AND FEMALE SEMINARIES—CREEK SCHOOLS—TULLAHASSEE MISSION SCHOOL— NUYAKA MISSION EITFAULA HIGH SCHOOL, EUCHEE MISSION OTHER BOARDING SCHOOLS. The Cherokee Nation has made more progress in education, haseducated a greater proportion of its members, male and female,than any other Indian tribe, not excepting the tribes whose educa-tional institutions, have, from their beginning, been controlled andmanaged by the Federal Government. As early as 1819, whilethey were still in possession of their Georgian homes, the Chero-kees, influenced and encouraged, doubtless, by the devoted mis-sionaries who had located among them, began to make provisionfor the education of their children, by creating a permanent schoolfund out of a portion of the p
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