A Cherokee Scholar Translated the Constitution. Washington Buried It.
Gilded Age America

A Cherokee Scholar Translated the Constitution. Washington Buried It.

In 1876, a Cherokee scholar finished translating the United States Constitution into his people's language—and the US government quietly made sure no one ever read it.

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Indigenous HistoryCherokee Nation19th CenturyUnited StatesLanguage And LiteracyColonial PolicyCivil RightsNorth America

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