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.
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Elias Boudinot (/ ɪ ˈ l aɪ ə s b uː ˈ d ɪ n ɒ t / il-EYE-əs boo-DIN-ot; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821), a Founding Father of the United States, was a lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate from Elizabeth, New Jersey.
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.
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.
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.
Primary Boudinot, Elias. Poor Sarah, or The Indian Woman. [Park Hill, Indian Territory: Mission Press], 1843 (1st ed., 1833). Elias Boudinot’s “Editorials” in The Cherokee Phoenix (see link at Digital Texts below). Secondary Gabriel, Ralph Henry. Elias Boudinot, Cherokee, & his America.
Elias Boudinot (ca 1803-1839) became the first editor of the bilingual newspaper Cherokee Phoenix, which began publication in the Cherokee Nation East (now Georgia) in 1828. He later became a primem over in the Treaty Party and was a signer of the Treaty of New Echota in 1835.
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.
Elias Boudinot , 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. Born to parents of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry and educated at the Foreign Mission School in Connecticut, he became one of several leaders who believed that ...