num_pages: 240
description: Established by the Cherokee Nation in 1851 in present-day eastern Oklahoma, the nondenominational 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. Recipient of a 1995 Critics' Choice Award of the American Educational Studies Association. 24 photos.
language: English
title: Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
titlecomplete: Cultivating the Rosebuds: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
genres: History, Education
ratings_count: 31
publisher: University of Illinois Press