Dr. George Lamplugh presented "The News from Cherokee Country: Elias Boudinot and the Cherokee Phoenix, 1828-1839" today at the Smyrna Public Library. The well attended presentation was very informative.
Presentation Summary:
The Cherokee Phoenix was the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The presentation is both a biography of Boudinot, the founding editor of the Phoenix (1828-1832), and a look at the history of the Cherokee tribal newspaper, which survived, for a couple of years following Boudinot's resignation from the paper.
Presenter: Dr. George Lamplugh is the former Social Studies Department Chair at Atlanta's Westminster School. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Delaware and has written three books on aspects of Georgia's early political history, including In Pursuit of Dead Georgians: One Historian's Excursions Into the History of His Adopted State.
The Sunday Lecture series is sponsored by the Friends of Smyrna Library.
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