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c1991., Juvenile, Childrens Press Call No: B SEQ Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Picture-story biographies.Summary Note: A biography of the native American who gave his people the gift of reading and writing by creating the Cherokee syllabary.
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c2004., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: 920.9 97500497557 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A look at the life and times of the Cherokee Indian who invented a system of writing for his people in the early nineteenth century.
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2004., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Co. Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Contains the biography of Sequoyah, a member of the Cherokee nation who was born in the 1760s in eastern Tennessee and who developed the first written alphabet and language for the Cherokee people. Presented in English and Cherokee.
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2004, Primary, Houghton Mifflin Co Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read.