The Cherokee Phoenix was revived in the 20th century, and today it publishes both print and Internet versions.

[3] He chose the name of Elias Boudinot after meeting the statesman, while on his way to the Foreign Mission School in Cornwall, Connecticut, where he graduated.

[5] Boudinot named the Cherokee Phoenix as a symbol of renewal, for the mythical bird that rose to new life from ashes of fire.

Samuel Worcester wrote an article praising Sequoyah's invention of the syllabary, and Boudinot's first editorial criticized white settlers wanting Cherokee land.

He addressed issues which Indians across the United States and its territories faced related to assimilation and removal from their traditional homelands.

His views were opposed by the majority of the Cherokee, including Principal Chief John Ross, elected by the constitutional republic in 1828.

When the federal government failed to pay the annuity to the Cherokee in 1834, the paper ceased publication.

Since the late 20th century, it has been revived and is now published by the Cherokee Nation as a monthly broadsheet in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

[12] Transcriptions of the English-language portions of the 19th-century newspaper can be found at Western Carolina University's Hunter Library's Web site.