| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1 | The History Cooperative

*Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border*. American Indian Lives Series. By James W. Parins. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. ix + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $60.00.)
James W. Parins has contributed much to the fields of American Indian biography, bibliography, and literature. His life of Elias Cornelius Boudinot, Cherokee diplomat and entrepreneur, is a fine addition to that body of work.	1
As Parins notes, Boudinot (1835–1890) believed the Cherokee people and other nations in post-Civil War Indian Territory should accept territorialization, allotment, and U. S. citizenship rather than cling to their national governments. That view was highly unpopular among contemporary Cherokees, and today's historians have generally shared their negative attitude toward Boudinot. Parins, though, describes him as ambitious, scheming, and opportunistic, but sincere in his vision for the future.	. . .

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