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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 and the Creation of the Cherokee Syllabary In the early years of the 19th century, the remarkable inventiveness of a Cherokee man, named Sequoyah, helped his people preserve their language and cultural traditions, and remain united amid the encroachment of Euro-American society into their territory
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 - Encyclopedia of Arkansas Sequoyah, also known as George Guess and George Gist, is best known for his development of the Cherokee syllabary, a notational system that transcribed the sounds of spoken Cherokee into a written form But during his long life, Sequoyah played many roles in Cherokee society
How a Cherokee Leader Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee man named Sequoyah began working on a writing system for his nation’s language It was a monumental task, especially considering that he could not read or write in English or