- Sequoyah - Wikipedia
Sequoyah ( səˈkwɔɪə sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [b] pronounced [seɡʷoja]; c 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation
- Sequoyah | Biography Facts | Britannica
Sequoyah, creator of the Cherokee writing system By 1821 he had created a system of 86 symbols, representing all the syllables of the Cherokee language His name (spelled Sequoia) was given to the giant redwoods of the Pacific coast and the big trees of the Sierra Nevada range
- Sequoyah | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture
Inventor of the Cherokee syllabary, Sequoyah, also known as George Guess or Gist, was probably born in the late 1770s at Tuskegee, which now lies under Tellico Lake in Tennessee
- Sequoyah Biography - life, name, mother, information, born, husband . . .
Sequoyah, Cherokee scholar, is the only known Native American to have created an alphabet for his tribe This advance helped thousands of Cherokee to become literate (able to read and write)
- Sequoyah and the Creation of the Cherokee Syllabary
Sequoyah was one of the most influential figures in Cherokee history He created the Cherokee Syllabary, a written form of the Cherokee language The syllabary allowed literacy and printing to flourish in the Cherokee Nation in the early 19th century and remains in use today
- Sequoyah - Encyclopedia of Alabama
Sequoyah lived the remainder of his life in Arkansas and Oklahoma, staying active in tribal politics He served as a delegate for the western Cherokees to Washington, D C , in 1827, in negotiations for the exchange of Arkansas Indian Territory land for land in present-day Oklahoma
- Sequoyah: The Man Who Created the Cherokee Written Language
Sequoyah is perhaps best known for creating a written Cherokee language, but that is far from his only contribution to the history of his people’s culture and the culture of the United States as a whole
- Sequoyah – Inventor of Written Cherokee - Legends of America
Sequoyah was a famous and influential Cherokee Leader who is credited with inventing the Cherokee alphabet
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