report of the secretary of the < !her-
okee national board of education to |A.gen1 Wisdom. He reports 1,800
children attending two seminaries, male and female, two high schools,
and one hundred primary schools, teachers being paid from |35 to
$100 per month for nine months in the year. Fourteen primary
schools were for the use of the negro citizens of the Nation, besides
which they had a fine high school, kept up, like all the others, at the
expense of the Cherokee goverment. Besides the national schools
there were twelve mission schools helping to do splendid work for
children of both citizens and noncitizens. Children of noncitizens
were not allowed to attend the Cherokee national schools, but had
their o\\ n subscription schools. The orphan asylum ranked as a high
school, in which L50 orphans were hoarded and educated,\\ ith gradu-
ates every year. It was a large brick building of three stories. 80 by
240 feet. The male seminary, accommodating 200 pupils, and the
female seminary, accommodating 225 pupils, were also large brick
structures, three stories in height and L50 by 240 feet on the ground.
Three members, all Cherokee by blood, constituted a board of educa-
tion. The secretary adds that the Cherokee are proud of their scl Is
and educational institutions, and that no other country under the sun
is so Messed with etlucat ional advantages at large. 1
At this time the Cherokee Nation numbered something over 25,000
Indian, white, and negro citizens; the total citizen population of the
three races in the five civilized tribes numbered about 70,000, while
the noncitizens had increased to 250,000 and their number was being
rapidly augmented. 2 Realizing