Posted on Feb 21, 2017
Centennial Stories: The Cherokee Phoenix
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Note : The video states the first edition was February 28, 1828. The actual day was February 21.
The Cherokee Phoenix (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ, translit. Tsalagi Tsulehisanəhi) was the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was published in English and Cherokee on February 21, 1828, in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (present-day Georgia). The paper continued until 1834. The Cherokee Phoenix was revived in the 20th century, and today it publishes both print and Internet versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix
http://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeePhoenix/
The Cherokee Phoenix (Cherokee: ᏣᎳᎩ ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ, translit. Tsalagi Tsulehisanəhi) was the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was published in English and Cherokee on February 21, 1828, in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (present-day Georgia). The paper continued until 1834. The Cherokee Phoenix was revived in the 20th century, and today it publishes both print and Internet versions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_Phoenix
http://www.wcu.edu/library/DigitalCollections/CherokeePhoenix/
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Most Informative and educational... Thanks for the Literary History lesson...
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Having grown up in Oklahoma, I have the greatest respect for the Native Americans. We learned about the five "civilized tribes" in middle school and got at least a basic understanding of the Trail of Tears that brought many Native Americans to what was then Oklahoma Territory. Later in life, I began to understand how poorly the European immigrants had treated the peoples they found when they arrived and settled in the New World. I understand the concepts of the "white mans' burden" and the economic and political need for Westward expansion that were underpinning for much of the move Westward out of the original 13 Colonies along with the animosity arising from the French & Indian Wars. Although the Westward movement of people of European ancestry expanded the territory of the Untied States and helped make it the great Nation it is today, our treatment of Native Americans is a dark stain on our History in the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries.
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