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Show Ar. Mtlous Indians. The Che-jkees, who tracked Do Soto's footsteps for many weary days while ho was marching through the southern forests and swamps, and who later welcomed Oglethorpe to Georgia, aro the most advanced Indians In-dians In civilization and the most engerfor education, spending (200,000 a year on their schools and colleges, Bays tho Indian School Journal. The Chlckasaws have Ave colleges, with 400 students, maintained at a yearly cost of $47,000. They also have 13 district schools, costing IC,000. The Choctaws hnve ISO schools, In some of, which tho higher branches are taught. The Semlnoles, one of the smaller tribes, have ten colleges nnd C5 common com-mon schoolB, with a total attendance of '-',500. |
