Her office is adorned with Cherokee words and pronunciations posted on objects such as the telephone and her desk chair. (The Cherokee alphabet, which consists of 84 symbols, each representing a ...

"Sequoyah, a native of East Tennessee, believed the white man's superior culture rested on his ability to use a written language and resolved to prepare an alphabet or syllabary in Cherokee.

Inventor: First conceived idea for alphabet in 1809. Later, seeing white soldiers receive letters from home ("talking leaves"), was inspired to create 85-character Cherokee alphabet.

There was at least one purely American alphabet, developed by Native Americans. The great Cherokee, Sequoyah, from about 1809 to 1821, worked out an 86-letter alphabet for the Cherokee language.

When he was 73 and she 23, the late great Tammany Chieftain Richard Croker married Kotaw Kaluntuchy (Bula Benton Edmondson), descendant of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. She had ...

In 1824, according to some news accounts, the Cherokee tribal council voted to give Sequoyah a silver medal in honor having invented the alphabet.