Letter from the Secretary of War, Transmitting the information called for on the 14th of February last, in relation to the Choctaw Academy for the education of Indian youths, established at the Great Crossings, in Kentucky
[Washington]: 1842.
Softcover. Very good. Doc. No. 231, 27th Congress, 2d Session. Disbound pamphlet. 37 pp, with 9 folding charts. Mild foxing, very good. The Choctaw Academy was established in 1818 by the Baptist Missionary Society of Kentucky, but closed after three years due to lack of funding. It was revived in 1825 by Richard M. Johnson, U.S. Senator from Kentucky, who had received a request from Choctaw leaders that he start a school, to be funded in part from money the tribe had received in exchange for ceding land to the government. The first class in the new school consisted of 25 Choctaw boys, who received instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, grammar, geography, surveying, astronomy, and music. The school later received funding from the Creek and Pottawatomie tribes, and enrolled students from those tribes, as well as the Ottawa, Miami, Seminole, Sac and Fox, and Osage tribes. Its enrollment reached a high of 188 students in 1835 but slowly declined thereafter, as new schools were opened in Indian Territory. This report provides detailed data for the years 1826-1841, showing "the amount expended by the United States in the support and education of Indian youths at the Choctaw Academy...to whom paid, and from what fund; also, the number of youths educated there" as well as the tribes represented.
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