Project Gutenberg's The Choctaw Freedmen, by Robert Elliott Flickinger

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

Title: The Choctaw Freedmen
and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy

Author: Robert Elliott Flickinger

Release Date: November 4, 2007 [EBook #23321]
Last updated: January 21, 2009

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHOCTAW FREEDMEN ***

Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Marcia Brooks, Don
Tvenge, African American Biographical Database and the
Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

The Choctaw Freedmen

[Illustration: OAK HILL]

AN OAK TREE

On the southeastern slope, near the Academy,
A pretty Oak,
That strong and stalwart grows.
With every changing wind that blows,
is a beautiful emblem of the strength, beauty and eminent usefulness
of an intelligent and noble man.

"He shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon; like a tree planted
by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season."

[Illustration: ALICE LEE ELLIOTT 1846-1906]

THE
Choctaw Freedmen

AND

The Story of
OAK HILL INDUSTRIAL ACADEMY
Valliant, McCurtain County
OKLAHOMA

Now Called the
ALICE LEE ELLIOTT MEMORIAL

Including the early History of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian
Territory the Presbytery of Kiamichi, Synod of Canadian, and the Bible
in the Free Schools of the American Colonies, but suppressed in France,
previous to the American and French Revolutions

BY
ROBERT ELLIOTT FLICKINGER
A Recent Superintendent of the Academy and
Pastor of the Oak Hill Church

ILLUSTRATED BY 100 ENGRAVINGS

Under the Auspices of the
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF MISSIONS FOR FREEDMEN
Pittsburgh, Pa.

ENTERED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS
IN THE YEAR 1914 BY THE AUTHOR
IN THE OFFICE OF THE LIBRARIAN OF CONGRESS
AT WASHINGTON, D. C.

Journal and Times Press, Fonda, Iowa

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. GENERAL FACTS
Introduction--List of Portraits

I Indian Territory 7

II Indian Schools and Churches 15

III The Bible, An Impo