Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — FOUR INDIAN TRIBES. [ARTICLE]

FOUR INDIAN TRIBES.

The Cherokee* Are the Most Advanced irl Civilization. * *- The Cherokees, who tracked Do Soto’s footsteps for many weary days while he was marching through, the Southern forests and swamps and who later welcomed Oglethorpe to Georgia, are the most advanced Indians in civilization and the most eager for education, spending $200,00(1 a year qn their schools and colleges. The Cbickasaws have five colleges, with - 400 students, maintained at a yearly cost of $47,000. They also have thirteen district schools, costing $16,000. The Choctaws have 150 schools. In some of which the higher branches j are taught. , The Seminoles, one of the smaller ! tribes, have ten colleges and sixtyfive common schools, with a total attendance of 2,500.