Cherokee girls no longer worked in the fields as their mothers and grandmothers had. They cooked, cleaned, ironed, sewed, and did other household chores thought by missionaries to be proper for young girls. Dwight Mission is a place of great historical importance to Pope County. Cherokee attitudes toward Dwight Mission, some in favor and some opposed, reflected deep divisions among the Cherokee about how best to adapt to Anglo ways and still keep their identity as Cherokee. These divisions, often bitter, continued in Oklahoma and are still part of the Cherokee experience today.
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