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Sequoyah (Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, or ᏎᏉᏯ, Se-quo-ya; IPA:, c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.
Sequoyah (born c. 1775, Taskigi, North Carolina colony [U.S.]—died August 1843, near San Fernando, Mexico) was the creator of the Cherokee writing system (see Cherokee language). Sequoyah was probably the son of a Virginia fur trader named Nathaniel Gist.
Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ S-si-quo-ya in Cherokee), conosciuto anche come George Gist, o George Guess (Tuskegee, 1770 circa – Tamaulipas, agosto 1843) fu un nativo americano Cherokee che inventò nel 1821 il sillabario Cherokee.
29 mag 2018 · Sequoyah (ca. 1770-1843), Cherokee scholar, is the only known Native American to have formulated analphabet for his tribe. This advance enabled thousands of Cherokee to become literate. Sequoyah was born at the Cherokee village of Taskigi in Tennessee.
19 ott 2023 · The written form of the Cherokee language, introduced by Sequoyah in 1821, offered its people a bridge between prehistory and modernity.
27 set 2023 · Sequoyah, the U.S. state that almost existed. It was planned as a Native American-governed state, until politicians folded Indigenous lands into Oklahoma—a decision that still impacts life there...
27 mar 2023 · Although Sequoyah was never a principal chief, he was active in Cherokee politics and an influential person. He was one of the Cherokee delegates who signed the 1816 Treaty of Chickasaw Council House, which ceded most of the Cherokee claims to land in present-day north Alabama.
30 ott 2023 · Sometime around 1809, Sequoyah began working on a new system to put the Cherokee language back on the page. He believed that, by inventing an alphabet, the Cherokee could share and save the ...
8 ott 2017 · The son of Nathaniel Gist (or Guess), a Virginia fur trader, and Wurtah (also known as Wureth or Wut-teh), daughter of a prominent Cherokee family, Sequoyah rose to international prominence as the first known individual to create a totally new system of writing.
3 set 2002 · Sequoyah, or Sequoia (both spellings were given by missionaries, but in Cherokee the name is closer to Sikwayi or Sogwali), also called George Gist or George Guess, was the legendary creator of the Cherokee syllabary.
