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An Indian Scholar

Record #:
15188
Abstract:
Sequoyah, son of a peddler called Gist and an unknown Native American woman, invented the Cherokee alphabet. He lived and traveled in western North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia until Andrew Jackson's \"Heart-Break Removal\" in the 1830s. He died in 1843 from a fever on the move west.
Source:
The State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 6 Issue 19, Oct 1938, p9, 20