Sequoyah
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Sequoyah, also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.
Portrait of Sequoyah by Henry Inman
Carnegie Museum of Art, Architecture Hall, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sequoyah Alphabet
Statue of Sequoyah in United States Capitol
Sequoyah Memorial in front of the Cherokee Museum in North Carolina
Cherokee syllabary
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The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illitera
Sequoyah
…1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, Sequoyah completed his Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in the Cherokee language. One of the first North American Indigenous groups to gain a written language, the Cherokee…
Sequoyah's original syllabary characters, showing both the script forms and the print forms
Bear statue by Charles Saunooke displaying the Sequoyah Syllabary, outside the Museum of the Cherokee People in Cherokee, North Carolina, 2017
Sign in Cherokee, North Carolina
Sequoyah