Sequoya
or Se·quoy·ah
[ si-kwoi-uh ]
noun
1770?–1843, Cherokee Indian scholar: inventor of a syllabary for writing Cherokee.
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How to use Sequoya in a sentence
The next year Sequoya visited the West, to introduce the new science among those who had emigrated to the Arkansas.
Myths of the Cherokee | James MooneyThe Washington treaty was signed by several delegates, including Sequoya, four of them signing in Cherokee characters.
Myths of the Cherokee | James MooneySequoya, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet, lived here in his boyhood, about the time of the Revolution.
Myths of the Cherokee | James MooneyTheir language was reduced to writing by means of an alphabet which one of their number named Sequoya had devised.
The Red Man's Continent | Ellsworth HuntingtonOn the other hand, it is certain that Sequoya was born before the date that Phillips allows.
Myths of the Cherokee | James Mooney
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