Sequoyah became more reclusive and obsessive, spending hour upon hour working on his alphabet. According to the official website of the Cherokee Nation, people outside his family began whispering ...

What's ahead. In the future, the Vonore museum will focus on Sequoyah’s life and work, and the times he lived in, 1776-1843, Rhodarmer said. Native American items from other places and periods ...

Sequoyah, whose name in English was George Guess or Gist, was born about 1763 near present day Vonore in Monroe County, Tennessee. He was raised by his mother, Wu-te-he, a full-blooded Cherokee.

"Sequoyah, a native of East Tennessee, believed the white man's superior culture rested on his ability to use a written language and resolved to prepare an alphabet or syllabary in Cherokee.

The original eighty-six characters of the Sequoyah syllabary. The red one was eventually removed. Credit: Kaldari / Wikimedia Commons That innate craftsmanship evolved into silversmithing as he grew ...

An alphabet uses individual symbols for consonants and vowels. Sequoyah’s writing system was directly connected to spoken Cherokee. Its 86 symbols represented consonant and vowel combinations ...

Sequoyah himself was reported to be very artistic growing up. He was good at drawing and he carved out a career making things as a silversmith. Now, in the very early 1800s many Cherokee did a ...

AKINS, OKLAHOMA — His likeness is forever listening, head cocked to gather inspiration. The father of the first truly American alphabet sits in the old Big Skin Bayou District of the Cherokee ...