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New Echota, GA - A Virtual TourElias Boudinot The ruins of the home site of Elias Boudinot, whose Cherokee name was Buck Oowatie. Elias become close friends to missionary Samuel Worcester, and together they established the first Native American newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, which was first published in 1828. Elias Boudinot was assassinated for illegally signing the Treaty of New Echota, but had he not signed the treaty, the Cherokees would have all been murdered. For proof, one only has to look at what happened to the other tribes in the area that are now extinct:
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"The time will come... when the few remnants of our once happy and improving Nation will be viewed by posterity with curious and gazing interest as relics of a brave and noble race... Perhaps, only here and there a solitary being, walking, 'as a ghost over the ashes of his fathers,' to remind a stranger that such a race once existed."
-Elias Boudinot - November 25th, 1836
NOTE: Native American history often varies from tribe to tribe and clan to clan.
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