Sequoyah, 16

by Grant Foreman

Book Overview

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."...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806110562
• ISBN13: 9780806110561
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 7.5"