Sequoyah (ca. 1776-1843) was a Cherokee silversmith best known for the syllabary he created to allow the Cherokees to have a written form of their language.
Sequoyah
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Print by McKenney and Hall, courtesy of the Birmingham Public Library, Tutwiler Collection of Southern History and Literature
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