At 09:40 PM 10/1/98 EDT, Bravewmn@aol.com wrote: >It was the Cherokee Phoenix, so named becasue like the Phoenix, the Cherokee >nation rose from the "ashes" so to speak after the removal from their >homeland. Elias Boudinot was Cherokee, and Major Ridge also wrote articles >for the paper. A gret book that has all this info "the Rise and Fall of the >Cherokee Nation" by John Ehle . I recently checked out a film series at the local library called: "Oklahoma Passage". It was all about tracing Oklahoma roots only done in "movie" format, and it talked a great deal about him. (that was why it stuck in my head when I read this paper) Nalora