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The first issue of the #CherokeePhoenix was published on #ThisDayInHistory in 1828. It used the #syllabary script developed by #Sequoyah. But being one of the so-called #FiveCivilizedTribes did not protect the #Cherokee of Georgia from an act of #genocide under #AndrewJackson.
CT History NewsJun 22, 2023

Today in #Connecticut History, June 22: The Assassination of Elias Boudinot, Cherokee

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June 22: The Assassination of Elias Boudinot, Cherokee

  The Cherokee leader Elias Boudinot first came to Connecticut in the 1820s to seek a formal western education at the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall. Born as Gallegina Uwati into a promine…

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