biography
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Boudinot, Elias
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originally Galegina
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (?1803–39)
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| biography:
| Cherokee writer and leader, born near Rome, Georgia, USA. The first editor of the Cherokee Phoenix (1828–34), he was murdered by other Cherokee for his support of Cherokee land cessions. He also wrote a novel and translated part of the Bible into Cherokee. |
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