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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 - Encyclopedia. com 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 | 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 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: 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
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
Sequoyah - New Georgia Encyclopedia Sequoyah, or Sequoia (both spellings were given by missionaries, but in Cherokee the name is closer to Sikwayi or Sogwali), also called George Gist or George Guess, was the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary