Native leaders worked with missionaries who wanted to open schools inside their territory after removal. Which of the following is NOT true about those efforts?
a) The Native leaders who supported the schools had sold-out their people because those schools provided no positive benefit to Indian students.
b) They believed education would empower future generations to defend their political sovereignty.
c) Students from these schools assumed leadership roles in coming years as teachers, lawyers, physicians, bureaucrats, and politicians.
d) These efforts were successful, yielding 21 schools and 1,100 students in the Cherokee Nation alone.