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Edwardsville Spectator
Edwardsville, Madison County, Illinois
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Letter from Brainerd mission in Cherokee nation reports prospering school with 80-90 children, growing desire for education, rapid civilization including council dividing country into eight districts, appointing officials, taxing for court-houses, and increased land cultivation among Cherokees.
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"Our school continues to prosper we have between 80 and 90 fine children--they are improving as fast as could be expected--there is an increasing desire among the natives to have their children educated--the nation is rapidly increasing in civilization--at their last council they divided their country into eight districts, appointed circuit judges, sheriffs, constables and justices, and laid a tax on the people to build a court-house in each district. They begin to pay very considerable attention to cultivating their land--they are many good persons among them.
It no longer remains a doubt whether the Indians of America can be civilized--the Cherokees have gone too far in the pleasant path of civilization to return to the rough and unbeaten track of savage life."
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Brainerd, In The Cherokee Nation
Event Date
January 18, 1821
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nation rapidly increasing in civilization; school prospering with 80-90 children improving; increasing desire for education; country divided into eight districts with appointed officials and tax for court-houses; attention to land cultivation; many good persons among them.
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School at Brainerd mission continues to prosper with between 80 and 90 fine children improving as expected; increasing desire among natives to educate children; at last council, country divided into eight districts, circuit judges, sheriffs, constables and justices appointed, tax laid to build court-house in each district; beginning to pay attention to cultivating land; Cherokees advancing in civilization and unlikely to return to savage life.