Boudinot outlined his position in Speech of Elias Boudinot of the Cherokee Nation, Delivered at Vinita, Indian Territory, August 29, 1874 (St. Louis: Barns & Beynon, 1874).

Elias C. Boudinot, The Memorial of Elias C. Boudinot to the Congress of the United States (Washington, D.C., 1877).

Speech of Elias C. Boudinot, a Cherokee Indian, Delivered before the House Committee on Territories, Feb. 7, 1872 in Behalf of a Territorial Government for the Indian Territory, in Reply to Wm. P. Ross . . . (Washington, D.C.: McGill & Witherow, 1872).

Parins, Boudinot, 85-205.