Sequoyah
Item
Foreman, Grant. “Sequoyah”. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Terra Incognita, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18878
- Title
- Sequoyah
- Description
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Sequoyah was a Cherokee who lived in Tennessee in the early 1800's. In 1809 he began to create a system of writing for the Cherokee language. It was a syllabary, or written characters which are used to represent a syllable. He invented 86 characters that represented sounds, which made up words.
This system was quickly adopted by the Cherokee people and became a valuable way to communicate between settlements that were separated by long distances - Creator
- Foreman, Grant
- Publisher
- Univ. of Oklahoma Press
- Date
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[1959, c1938]
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- Item sets
- Terra Incognita
- Site pages
- Sequoyah
- Media
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Foreman, Grant. “Sequoyah”. Univ. of Oklahoma Press, Terra Incognita, accessed February 10, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/terra-incognita/item/18878