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Sequoyah Research
Center
News Release
April
20, 2006
Contact
501-371-7585
Parins Publishes Cherokee Biography
James W.
Parins, Associate Director of the Sequoyah
Research
Center,
is the author of Elias Cornelius
Boudinot: A Life on the Border,
recently released by the University
of Nebraska Press.
The book
chronicles the often tumultuous life of the son of Elias and Harriet
Gold
Boudinot. The elder Boudinot is known in
history as the first editor of the Cherokee
Phoenix, the first tribal newspaper published in America;
signer of the infamous New
Echota Treaty of 1835 that precipitated the Cherokee Trail of Tears;
and the
victim of a Cherokee execution squad sent out in retaliation against
Treaty
Party members.
The
circumstances of his father’s life and controversial death and
the common
resentment against Treaty Party members among the Cherokee people often
placed
the younger Boudinot at odds with the policies of the Cherokee Nation. Parins tells a compelling story of the life
of this Cherokee newspaper editor, Civil War soldier, lawyer, and
entrepreneur.
An
internationally known scholar, Parins is recognized for his work in
Cherokee
biography. Elias Cornelius
Boudinot appears as a title in the Indian Lives
Series of books by the University
of Nebraska Press. In 1991, Parins published John
Rollin Ridge: His Life and Times in
the same
series. His latest work distinguishes him
as the only biographer who has published two titles as Indian Lives.
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