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appropriated to educational uses, establishing 
schools, ete.* The tuition is. I believe, in every 
case, free to the Indians; and yet it is painful 
to know that comparatively few of the com- 
mon classes will send their children. 
he most extensive literary institution 
which has ever been in operation, for the 
benefit of the ‘red man,’ was the ‘Choctaw 
Academy,’ established in Kentucky, and sup- 
ported by a common fund of several different 
tribes. It was not as successful, however, as 
was anticipated by its projectors; and is now 
being transferred and merged into an acade- 
my near Fort Towson, in the Choctaw country, 
wholly supported out of the Choctaw fund. 
This Academy proved very unsatisfactory to 
many of the tribes concerned. They sai 
with apparent justice, that their boys, educated 
there, forgot all their customs, their language, 
their relatives, their national attachments; and, 
in exchange, often acquired indolent and ef. 
feminate, if not vicious habits; and were ren- 
* Pe hn schools are mostly conducted in aes ee yet among 
tribes they are often taught in their n nguages, 
id a the Cherokees have made nel me agers cheese: 
a literary Their singular system of characters 
reprint: syllcblen, i invented by an ‘literals native, is no 
doubt known to most of my readers. In these characters, a con- 
siderable number of books have printed in their vernacular 
ngue. Many Cherokees, however, as well as C , ha 
received good English educations. In n latter 
a pot Nuit of books been published, but in which 
the common letter is . _A few books have also been printed 
in the languages of the Creeks, Wyandots, Potawatomies and Ot- 
tawas, Shawnees, Delawares, and some in the nt dialects of 
— Kansas, Otoes, etc. There is now a printing-office in ope- 
at Park Hill, in the oe Aer, and another among 
the pgs th Sata at the Baptist 
