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Bookmark or Share- Sequoyah | Biography & Facts | BritannicaSequoyah (born c. 1775, Taskigi, North Carolina colony [U.S.]—died August 1843, near San Fernando, Mexico) was the creator of the Cherokee writing system ( see Cherokee language ). Sequoyah was probably the son of a Virginia fur trader named Nathaniel Gist. Reared by his Cherokee mother, Wuh-teh of the Paint clan, in the Tennessee country, he ...
- Sequoyah - WikipediaSequoyah ( Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Se-quo-ya; [b] IPA: [seɡʷoja], c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in Cherokee.
- Sequoyah - New Georgia EncyclopediaSequoyah, 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. Born in a village in the mountains of Tennessee, he resettled in Arkansas when tribal land along the Little Tennessee River was ...
- How Sequoyah, who did not read or write, created a written ...The tribal leaders recognized the value of Sequoyah’s writing system. Within six months, more than 25% of the Cherokee Nation had learned how to read and write.
- Sequoyah and the Creation of the Cherokee SyllabarySequoyah 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. In the early years of the 19th century, the remarkable inventiveness ...
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