Editing Cherokee County, Oklahoma (section)

===Colleges===
[[Image:Seminary Hall.jpg|thumb|right|Tahlequah is home to [[Northeastern State University]].]]
[[Northeastern State University]] is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of Oklahoma as well as one of the oldest institutions of higher learning west of the [[Mississippi River]].<ref>{{cite web |publisher=NSU |access-date=February 20, 2008 |url=http://www.nsuok.edu/GettingStarted/OurCampuses.aspx |title=General Information |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828040356/http://www.nsuok.edu/GettingStarted/OurCampuses.aspx |archive-date=August 28, 2009 }}</ref> Tahlequah is home to the capital of the [[Cherokee]] Nation of [[Oklahoma]] and about 25 percent of the students at NSU identify themselves as American Indian.<ref name="EOHC-NSU">Agnew, Brad. ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. "Northeastern State University."{{cite web |url=http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NO014.html |title=Northeastern State University |access-date=January 8, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121119150758/http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/N/NO014.html |archive-date=November 19, 2012 }}</ref> The university has many courses focused on Native American linguistics, and offers [[Cherokee language]] Education as a major.<ref>{{cite web |author=+ auElement.html() + |url=http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/02/nsu-cherokee-nation-partner-train-and-hire-language-instructors-157146 |title=NSU, Cherokee Nation Partner to Train and Hire Language Instructors - ICTMN.com |publisher=Indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com |access-date=July 17, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150813231838/http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/10/02/nsu-cherokee-nation-partner-train-and-hire-language-instructors-157146 |archive-date=August 13, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Cherokee can be studied as a [[second language]], and some classes are taught in Cherokee for [[first language]] speakers as well.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/chr|title=Cherokee|work=Ethnologue}}</ref>