Volume 13 , Issue 25

The Cherokee Phoenix

The Cherokee Phoenix was the name of the first Cherokee newspaper. It was established at New Electa, Tennessee, in 1827, with Elias Boudinot as editor. Its publication continued until 1832. In 1844 it was re-established in Tahlequah, the capital of the new home of the Cherokee in the West, under the name of the Cherokee Advocate, and as such it was continuously published until the outbreak of the Civil War.

It was again re-established in 1870. In 1876 the printing plant of the Advocate was destroyed by fire and, when re-established, it was gain given a new volume and number. The Advoate was printed half in Cherokee and half in English. It was published by the Cherokee Nation, its editor being selected by the National Council usually from among the ablest men in the tribe. It was the medium through which all legal notices, proclamations, reports and other public documents reached the citizenship of the little Indian republic and, in addition, much in the way of news and editorial comment that was of pertinent interest. Being national publication, it was always neutral in all matters pertaining to the partizan political controversies which so often agitated the Cherokee people.
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