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The Cherokee Phoenix: America’s First Indigenous Newspaper and Its Impact

Suhail Ahmed

  In a nation racing to industrialize, the Cherokee Nation quietly pulled off a media breakthrough that changed what literacy could mean on this continent. Within a decade of inventing a written script, the Cherokee launched a bilingual newspaper that rivaled any small-town press in the young United States. The leap from oral memory to ...