Roots from the Cherokees Promises for our Future: The Chronicle of Northeastern State University includes a guide to the campuses and a long history of the school. It has 160 pages with many photos. It is in excellent condition.Northeastern State University (NSU) is a public university with its main campus in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Northeastern 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. 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. The university has many courses focused on Native American linguistics, and offers Cherokee language Education as a major. Cherokee can be studied as a second language, and some classes are taught in Cherokee for first language speakers as well.