Elias Boudinot

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A formally educated Cherokee who became the editor of the first Native American newspaper in the United States, Elias Boudinot ultimately signed the New Echota Treaty (1835), which required the Cherokees to relinquish all remaining land east of the Mississippi River.

Image from Oklahoma Historical Society, Muriel Wright Collection.

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