Article recounts Sister Mary Agnes Newchurch's time at a mission schools in Tulsa and Vinita during a year of financial difficulties and misunderstandings with the communities. She was the last surviving member who taught at these communities at the time of her testimony.
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Article recounts Sister Mary Agnes Newchurch's time at a mission schools in Tulsa and Vinita during a year of financial difficulties and misunderstandings with the communities. She was the last surviving member who taught at these communities at the time of her testimony.
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Nolan, Charles E. & Newchurch, Sister Mary Agnes.Recollections of Tulsa, Indian Territory, From Sister Mary Agnes Newchurch, O. Carm,
article,
Spring 1971;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
(https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2124109/:
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crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.