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Elias
Boudinot was born Gul-la-gee-nah "Buck Deer" Watie,
brother of Stand Watie, in Georgia in 1802. His benefactor
at the foreign mission school in Cornwall, CT, Elias Boudinot,
was so impressed with the young Cherokee that he gave him his
name.
Although
active in Cherokee government, Boudinot is best known for signing
the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, which traded Cherokee ancestral
homelands in the east for lands west of the Mississippi River.
Boudinot and two other members of the Treaty Party, Major Ridge
and John Ridge, were killed on June 22, 1839, for signing the
treaty.
Boudinot
was the first editor of the
Cherokee
Phoenix, the first Cherokee newspaper, from 1828 to
1832. We wrote editorials denouncing the removal policies
until he began to believe that Cherokees would best prosper
away from the white man in Indian Territory.
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Cherokee Phoenix
Other Web Links Referencing Elias
Boudinot
Elias Boudinot,
Editor of the Cherokee Phoenix
Elias Boudinot
Elias
Boudinot, Cherokee Letters and Other Papers Relating to Cherokee
Affairs:
The Cherokee
Phoenix
Mission
Statement
by
Elias Boudinot, founding editor
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