Record #:

13074

Author(s):

Norris, Jeannie Faris

Abstract:

North Carolina native, George Guess (Gist), popularly known as Sequoyah, is famous for inventing the Cherokee alphabet. Carrying the written language to Mexico during the mid-1800s, Sequoyah taught fellow Cherokees using one language set. Compiled through years of study and a compiling a syllabary of 85 characters, Sequoyah disseminated Cherokee knowledge Cherokee in schools and newspapers in the Oklahoma Territory.

Source:

The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 24 Issue 20, Feb 1957, p13-14, il

Subject(s):

Sequoyah, ca. 1767-1843