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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Cherokee scholar who developed a system of transcribing the Cherokee language.
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- noun Cherokee who created a notation for writing the Cherokee language (1770-1843)
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Examples
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The name Sequoya was given to him by the missionaries.
unknown title 2009
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In 1822, Sequoya went west to teach his alphabet to the Indians of the western division, and he remained there permanently.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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In 1821, Sequoya, son of a mixed-blood Cherokee woman, created the Cherokee language, a syllabary – a list of individual letters and syllables – and Cherokee of all ages began learning it with such zeal that in a few months many of them were able to read and write with it.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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We visited her first, staying long enough for my five-year-old son, En-Uk Sequoya, to grow bored and begin wreaking havoc.
Adventures in Korean English Horace Jeffery Hodges 2005
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A year or two later Sequoya (q. v.), a mixed blood, invented the alphabet, which at once raised them to the rank of a literary people.
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In 1821 Sequoya, a mixed blood of the tribe, invented a syllabic alphabet for the language which has been an immense factor in their progress toward civilization.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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Sequoya and other leaders, however, may not have been pure Indians, for by that time much white blood had been mixed with the tribe.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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Their language was reduced to writing by means of an alphabet which one of their number named Sequoya had devised.
The Red Man's Continent: a chronicle of aboriginal America Ellsworth Huntington 1911
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Free State left five runners on base throughout the game and that left the door cracked for Sequoya to stage a late comeback.
LJWorld.com stories: News J-W Staff Reports 2010
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- Two days after opening the season with a victory, the Free State High baseball team dropped its first game of the year on Friday, 3-2, to host Sequoya High at the Claremore 4-State Baseball Festival.
LJWorld.com stories: News J-W Staff Reports 2010
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