Sequoyah with Cherokee Syllabary, 19th C

Sequoyah (also known as George Guess or Gist) holding the Cherokee syllabary he invented. In 1821, Sequoyah (c. 1770-1843), a Native American polymath, 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 Nation officially adopted the syllabary in 1825. Color lithograph from 1833 of an 1828 portrait painted by Charles Bird King./n

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