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Share Some of Australia’s sharpest minds in technology and innovation will share their experiences and expertise today with 380 school students at the BIG Day In IT Conference and Expo. Students from public and private schools in Bunbury, Busselton and Margaret River, as well as the metropolitan area, from Darch in Perth’s northern suburbs to Wellard in the south and Ellenbrook in the east will attend the event. Hosted by The University of Western Australia and run by the ACS Foundation, the BIG Day In features speakers from high-profile companies such as Microsoft, BHP, Bankwest, Techno...

Save this story for later. Two years ago, the House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States held a hearing on the murder and disappearance of Native women. Native women are murdered on reservations at a rate ten times the national average; there were more than five thousand reported cases of missing Native women in 2016 alone, and many more cases go unreported. Among the witnesses at the hearing was Mary Kathryn Nagle, the legal counsel for the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Nagle, in her testimony, no...

Elias Boudinot TAHLEQUAH – After Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary in the early 1800s, his written language was used primarily for Christian instruction, but tribal leaders saw the syllabary could also be used to inform Cherokee people via a newspaper. “To obtain a correct and complete knowledge of these people, there must exist a vehicle of Indian intelligence, altogether different from those which have heretofore been employed,” Elias Boudinot, the Cherokee Phoenix’s first editor, said. The 23-year-old planned to print the news and other matters important to Chero...

TAHLEQUAH – On Feb. 21, 1828, the first issue of the Cherokee Phoenix was published in New Echota, Georgia. It was the first Native American newspaper in the country and was printed in both English and Cherokee utilizing Sequoyah’s syllabary.  Editor Elias Boudinot gave the paper the name Cherokee Phoenix after the phoenix bird of Egyptian mythology that consumes itself in fire every 500 years and is reborn from the ashes. Boudinot had learned about the phoenix during his education in Cornwall, Connecticut. Over time, the name has proven to be fitting as the Cherokee ...

John Rollin Ridge TAHLEQUAH – The creation of the Cherokee Phoenix blazed a trail for Native journalism, and in the mid-1800s a Cherokee was a trailblazer for journalism in California. On June 22, 1839, John Rollin Ridge had witnessed the murder of his father, John Ridge, a prominent leader in the Cherokee Nation. On the same day, his grandfather, Major Ridge, and his cousin, Elias Boudinot, the former editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, were assassinated as well. The three men were members of the Treaty Party, which had taken part in signing away what remained of Cherokee lands in the east ...