. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . for the support of acad-emies. The Indians also often sent some of theirchildren to schools among the whites. The Federal Government established a numberof schools for the Indians, — one at Chilocco,one near the Darlington agency, one at Lawton,and another near Anadarko. By the Curtis Act, government schools wereorganized in the rural districts of the civilizedtribes for the benefit of the white chil- Governmentdren, but Indian children could attend ^^^^^^^also. These schools were under the supervisionof John D. Benedict for about ten year
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . for the support of acad-emies. The Indians also often sent some of theirchildren to schools among the whites. The Federal Government established a numberof schools for the Indians, — one at Chilocco,one near the Darlington agency, one at Lawton,and another near Anadarko. By the Curtis Act, government schools wereorganized in the rural districts of the civilizedtribes for the benefit of the white chil- Governmentdren, but Indian children could attend ^^^^^^^also. These schools were under the supervisionof John D. Benedict for about ten years beginningin 1898. The Curtis Act also provided for theorganization of schools in the cities of IndianTerritory. 166 OKLAHOMA HISTORY A great educational factor among the Cherokeeswas their newspaper which was pubhshed by thenation and furnished free to the members of thetribe. It was printed both in Cherokee and inCherokee Enghsh. It was Started by EhasAdvocate » Boudinot in 1827 before the Cherokeescame west, and was called the Phoenix. It was. U. S. Indian School, Chilocco, Oklahoma discontinued in 1832, and started again in 1844,under the name of the Cherokee Advocate. TheCivil War caused it to cease publication, but in1870 it was reestablished, and continued until1906. Sequoyahs name should be mentioned in thisconnection. By the invention of the Cherokeealphabet he opened the way for the education EDUCATION 167 of his people. The Cherokee language containseighty-five sounds. Sequoyah (George Guess) in-vented a character for each sound. He made theinvention about 1(S21. As soon as Oklahoma was settled, schools werestarted. When Oklahoma Territory was organ-ized, a territorial superintend-ent was appointed by thegovernor (Governor Steele),also a county superintendentfor each county, and an edu-cational S3^stem was soon out-lined. The first territoriallegislature provided for a uni-versity, an agricultural college,and a normal school. Beforestatehood there had been es-tal
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