Elias Boudinot was a writer, newspaper editor, and leader of the Cherokee Nation. He was a member of a prominent family, and was born and grew up in Cherokee territory, now part of present-day Georgia. Born to parents of mixed Cherokee and European ancestry and educated at the Foreign Mission School in Connecticut, he became one of several leaders who thought that acculturation was critical to Cherokee survival. He was influential in the period of removal to Indian Territory.
- Occupation
- entrepreneur, translator, Bible translator, journalist
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1802
- Died
- June 22, 1839
