Rumford, James

Sequoyah : The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004.

Honor book for the Robert F. Sibert Award.

The story of Sequoyah is the tale of an ordinary man with an extraordinary idea---to create a writing system for the Cherokee Indians and turn his people into a nation of readers and writers. The task he set for himself was daunting.

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Sequoyah, 1770?-1843
Cherokee Indians--Biography
Cherokee language--Writing
Cherokee language--Alphabet
Native Americans