Tribal money gained from the sale of eastern lands was used for education.

   1.  A commissioner of education was elected.

   2.  Kindergarten through grammar school

   3.  Scholarships were give to the brightest.

   4.  Missionaries established schools

Samuel Austin Worchester was best known missionary.

   Park Hill Press near Tahlequah

Evan Jones  was the best known Baptist missionary

Cyrus Byington a teacher to the Choctaws
 
 
 
 

George Guess  AKA Sequoyah creator of the
                                Cherokee syllabary which contains
                                                           an alphabet of eighty-six characters.
 
 

    Workbook Page 19