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Sequoyah (Paperback)
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Sequoyah (Paperback)
Series: The Civilization of the American Indian Series
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Loot Price R419
Discovery Miles 4 190
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Sequoyah is widely celebrated as an unlettered Cherokee Indian who,
entirely from the resources of his own brilliant mind, endowed his
whole tribe with learning-the only man in history to conceive and
perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary. Soon after 1800,
Sequoyah began to realize the magic of writing. He and other
Indians of the time, who occasionally saw samples of writing,
called these mysterious pages the white man's "talking leaf." He
experimented aimlessly at first, but gradually his conception took
practical shape. It was slow and laborious work for an untutored
Cherokee. Finally, after twelve years of labor and discouragement,
he completed his syllabary, composed of eighty-five symbols, each
representing a sound in the Cherokee language. The simplicity of
the syllabary and its easy adaptability to the speech and thought
of his people enabled them to master it in a few days. The Cherokee
nation was made practically literate within a few months.
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