This man invented the Cherokee alphabet............all on his own.........................blacks have a right to complain about what is happening now and has been happening for a long time in the USA..........but........500 years ago..............there were only native Americans here........whites whine on about how people should speak English.....................but that language is from the British Isles............and from a race of people that stole this land....................and it is still all being sweep under the rug.............the blacks tell me they love me or keep asking me how i am doing when i am almost dead...............they ask as if they even cared in the 1st place...........and every time they ask......my answer has been the same...........not good or close to death...........but they have yet to listen..........................u do not love me...........u only love what i have done for u.................that is not love...........but slavery........................
Sequoyah
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| Sequoyah | |
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SE-QUO-YAH – a lithograph from History of the Indian Tribes of North America. This lithograph is from the portrait painted by Charles Bird Kingin 1828.
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| Native name | ᏍᏏᏉᏯ |
| Born | c. 1770 Tuskegee, Cherokee Nation (near present day Knoxville, Tennessee)[1] |
| Died | August 1843 (aged 72–73) San Fernando, Tamaulipas,Mexico |
| Nationality | Cherokee |
| Other names | George Guess or Gist |
| Occupation | silversmith, blacksmith, teacher, soldier |
| Spouse(s) | 1st: Sally (maiden name unknown), 2nd: U-ti-yu |
| Children | Four with first wife, three with second |
| Parent(s) | Wut-teh and unidentified father |
Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ Ssiquoya, as he signed his name,[2][3] or ᏎᏉᏯ Se-quo-ya, as his name is often spelled today in Cherokee) (c. 1770–1840), named in EnglishGeorge Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. This was the only time in recorded history that a member of a pre-literate people independently created an effective writing system.[1][4] After seeing its worth, the people of the Cherokee Nation rapidly began to use his syllabary and officially adopted it in 1825. Their literacy rate quickly surpassed that of surroundingEuropean-American settlers.[1]
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[hide]Early life[edit]
Sequoyah's heroic status has led to several competing accounts of his life that are speculative, contradictory, or fabricated.[5] As noted by John B. Davis, there were very few primary documents describing facts of Sequoyah's life. Some anecdotes were passed down orally, but these often conflict or are vague about times and places.[6]
Sequoyah was born in the Cherokee town of Tuskegee circa 1770. James Mooney, a prominent anthropologist and historian of the Cherokee people, quoted a cousin as saying that as a little boy, he spent his early years with his mother. Estimates of his birth year ranged from 1760 to 1776. His name is believed to come from the Cherokee word siqua meaning 'hog'. However, Davis says the name may have been derived from sikwa (either a hog or an opossum) and vi meaning a place or an enclosure.[6]This is a reference either to a childhood deformity or to a later injury that left Sequoyah disabled.[7]
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