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Elias Boudinot (Cherokee: ᎦᎴᎩᎾ ᎤᏩᏘ, romanized: Gallegina Uwati; 1802 – June 22, 1839), also known as Buck Watie) was a writer, newspaper editor, and leader of the Cherokee Nation. He was a member of a prominent family, and was born and grew up in Cherokee territory, now part of present-day Georgia.

Elias Boudinot, American lawyer and public official who was involved in the American Revolution. Boudinot became a lawyer and attorney-at-law in 1760. He was a leader in his profession, and, though he was a conservative Whig, he supported the American Revolution.

As an educator, an advocate of Cherokee acculturation, and editor of the Phoenix, Boudinot played a crucial role in Cherokee history during the decades preceding the Nation’s forced removal, often referred to as the Trail of Tears. Elias Boudinot. Image from Oklahoma Historical Society.

Boudinot was one of the signers of the Treaty of New Echota, in New Echota, Cherokee Nation (present-day Calhoun, Georgia) in 1836, which ceded all Cherokee land east of the Mississippi River. In the years that followed, the United States Army enforced the Removal Act, forcing the Cherokee west into present-day Oklahoma.

Elias Cornelius Boudinot (August 1, 1835 – September 27, 1890) was an American politician, lawyer, newspaper editor, and co-founder of the Arkansan who served as the delegate to the Confederate States House of Representatives representing the Cherokee Nation.

Threatened by Georgia soldiers for championing Cherokee nationalism yet executed by his own people for treason, Elias Boudinot left a complex legacy. As a reporter, essayist, editor, and translator he tried to enable the coexistence of Cherokees and the white men of Georgia and the United States.

Apr 30, 2012 In the early 1800s, the Cherokee Nation was losing its lands in the East. In desperation, the Tribal Council declared in 1829 it would give up no more land and adopted a resolution declaring that any tribal citizen who ceded any part of the tribe's domain would be punished by death.

BOUDINOT, ELIAS (ca. 1803–1839). Cherokee leader and newspaper editor Elias Boudinot was born circa 1803 in an area between present Rome and Calhoun, Georgia. He was the child of Oowatie and his wife Susannah and had the given name of Galagina (The Buck) Oowatie.