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NSU archivist to speak about time capsule

 
By Sharon Burns | Published: August 30, 2007    Comment on this article Leave a comment

Northeastern State University began in 1846, when the Cherokee Nation Council authorized the building of the Cherokee national seminaries at Park Hill in Tahlequah.

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The Cherokee National Male Seminary opened May 6, 1851, and the Cherokee National Female Seminary opened the next day to fulfill the terms of the Treaty of 1835 between the United States and the Cherokee Nation. The treaty stipulated that public and higher education be provided for the Cherokees.

When the Cherokee National Female Seminary burned to the ground on Easter 1887, the Cherokee council chose to rebuild on a 40-acre site north of Tahlequah. The new female seminary was dedicated May 7, 1889, and is now Seminary Hall, the centerpiece of the university's campus.

On March 6, 1909, the state Legislature passed an act to create Northeastern State Normal School at Tahlequah and to authorize buying the Cherokee National Female Seminary and surrounding Cherokee land. In 1919, the name was changed to Northeastern State Teachers College.

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