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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...
- the son of
Uwatie (Cherokee for "the
ancient one",
sometimes spelled Oowatie), a full-blood Cherokee, and
Susanna Reese,
daughter of a
white father...
- The
Council selected Elias Boudinot as the
first editor.
Named Galagina Oowatie (ᎦᎴᎩᎾ ᎤᏩᏘ) in the
Cherokee language,
Elias Boudinot was born in 1804 at...
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buried there.
Worcester was
strongly influenced by a
young Cherokee named Oowatie (later
known by the
English name he took, in
honor of a mentor,
Elias Boudinot)...
