Too Dark to Be Angels: The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary.

Mihesuah, Devon A.

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Publication Date: 1991

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Too Dark to Be Angels: The Class System among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary.

Mihesuah, Devon A.

American Indian Culture and Research Journal, v15 n1 p29-52 1991

Cherokee Female Seminary in Indian Territory provided high quality education for Cherokee girls, 1851-1909. However, the school repressed Cherokee traditions and values, glorified White ways and appearance, and fostered a social class system that paralleled tribal tensions between mixed-bloods and full-bloods and between traditionalists and progressives. (SV)

Descriptors: Acculturation, American Indian Education, American Indian History, Boarding Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Bias, Females, Racial Bias, Social Bias, Social Class, Womens Education

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Language: English

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