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Some Reflections Of My Life: An Account Of Mission Work Among The Cherokee, Abelone Larsen
Some Reflections Of My Life: An Account Of Mission Work Among The Cherokee, Abelone Larsen
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Editor's Introduction
In 1892, at the invitation of a Danish immigrant who had married a Cherokee woman in what was then Indian Territory, the Danish Lutheran Church Association sent a student from Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska, to investigate the possibility of doing mission work among the Cherokee. The student, Niels Laurits Nielsen, returned in the summer of 1893 and began working among the Cherokee, eventually founding a school and a church at Oaks, Oklahoma. The Oaks mission became one of the most important missions of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church (later the UELC) and continues as an institution …