Cultivating the Rosebuds
Subtitle: The Education of Women at the Cherokee Female Seminary, 1851-1909
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780252066771
Subjects: Women's studies; Native American Religions; Specific Religious Congregations And Orders; Religion; History - General History; Sociology; North America; History; Native American; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / Native American Studies; General
First sentence: On a sweltering day in late June 1827, the Reverend Samuel Austin Worcester leaned back in his chair as he listened to the young Cherokee students of Tennessee's Brainerd Mission reciting their daily lessons.