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A Most Accomplished Cherokee

A Siskiyou News Fun Fact On this Columbus Day AKA Indigenous Peoples’ Day Of 2023

“Sequoyah remains the only identifiable person in human history to have invented a system for writing his own language without first being literate in another (language).”

Sent In By Felice Pace of Klamath, CA

Apple Dictionary had this to say :

Sequoya | səˈkwoiə | (also Sequoyah, Sequoia) (c.1770–1843), Cherokee Indian scholar; Cherokee name Sogwali; also known as George Guess or Gist. He invented a writing system (the Cherokee syllabary) 1809–21 for…

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