TY - BOOK AU - Rumford,James TI - Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing SN - 0-618-36947-3 PY - 2004/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - Sequoyah, 1770?-1843 KW - Cherokee Indians KW - Biography KW - Cherokee language KW - Writing KW - Alphabet KW - Native Americans N1 - Honor book for the Robert F. Sibert Award N2 - 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 ER -