Indian Pioneer Papers - Index
Indian Pioneer
History Project for Oklahoma
Date: April 29, 1937
Field Worker: Jefferson
Berryhill
Volume 102
Creek
Schools
THE INDIAN SCHOOLS
There are quite a number
of Indian Schools today. Some of the old Indian Missions have been abandoned,
but some are still in use.
Nuyaka Mission or Nuyaka
Boarding School ceased to be a boarding school in 1923. It is located fourteen
miles west of Okmulgee.
Another Indian School
known as Euchee Boarding School is located on the east edge of Sapulpa.
When the Nuyaka Boarding School was closed the students of that school
were transferred to Euchee Boarding School, which is still in use and retains
its same name.
Eufaula Boarding School
for girls located in the edge of Eufaula.
Chilocco Indian School
is located in the northwest part of Oklahoma near the Kansas line.
Haskell Institute is at
Lawerence, Kansas. It is a big school and all kinds of Indian tribes go
there.
Riverside, California,
is another Indian School.
Sequoyah Training School,
located near Tahlequah, Oklahoma is another Indian school mostly for Cherokee
although many Creek Indians go to school there.
Mekusukey, an Indian school
near Wewoka, Oklahoma, was destroyed by fire but now it is expected to
be rebuilt again.
An old Indian school of
Wealaka has been abandoned.
Another at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
was also abandoned.
Submitted to OKGenWeb by Gay & Tim Wall <t31892@nidlink.com> 02-1999.