Sequoyah

Sequoyah by Carl, and Tristan Born in 1776 but his father never had a chance to see him. His english name is Gorege Gint in english. He was named Sequoyah because he got a hunting accident after that they named him that because Sequoyah means pig's foot in english and it was given to him by missionaries. He was a silversmith and trader in the Cherokee county in. He set out to create a system for reducing the Cherokee language to writing, he made a syllabary of 85 letters. The other Cherokees ridiculed him because they didn't belive him. Sequoyah visited the Arkansas Cherokees soon he taught thousands of native americans to write. When he was in Mexico searching for the Mexican Cherokee tribe but some say he got sick and died on the trip but no one knows what happened to him. He invented the Cherokee alphabet for the Cheerokee pepole.He died on Augaust, 1883.He died by keep getting sick,well,sick,well,sick...

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