- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Elias Boudinot, Gordon County, Georgia, ca. 1830]
- Date of Original:
- 1830
- Subject:
- Indians of North America--Georgia--Gordon County
Portraits--Georgia--Gordon County - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Gordon County, 34.50336, -84.87575
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- ca. 1830. Elias Boudinot was born near Rome, Ga. in 1803. His Cherokee Indian name was Killekeenah Oowatie, later shortened to Watie. He received an education at a mission school established in Cornwall, Conn. by the American Board of Foreign Missions. While attending the mission school, he met Harriet Ruggles Gold, the daughter of Col. and Mrs. Benjamin Gold. They were later married. They lived at New Echota which is located northeast of Calhoun. In 1825 it was designated the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Both were involved in missionary work. Elias worked at a mission school, translated the Bible into the Cherokee language, and was the editor of The Cherokee Phoenix from 1828-1832. Elias was among those Indians who helped work out the provisions of the New Echota Treaty which removed the Cherokee Indians to the West. Mrs. Boudinot died in 1836 before the Indians were removed. Elias Boudinot was assassinated in 1838, whortly after reaching the western home of the Cherokee by those who opposed the New Echota Treaty.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_gor376
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:gor376
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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