Cherokee Phoenix
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The Cherokee Phoenix was the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States from New Echota.
In 1828, Elias Boudinot, another Native leader, became editor of the first Native American newspaper. The word Phoenix came from the name of a mythical bird that rose from ashes of a fire. The newspaper was printed in both English and Cherokee. Bringing many tribes from the Cherokee Nation together. The tribes were scattered in such far places as Virginia , North Carolina, northeast Alabama and Georgia. The newspaper was successful for the development of the Cherokee language (Sequoyah's Syllabary). The publication had started in 1828 and ended in 1835 after Georgia politicians ordered the editor to stop publication.
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