Sequoyah's Writing System

and gaining valuable details making it something of a myth. People write differently depending on the recipient and what their motives are. As we look at the writings of

The Cherokee were farmers, and their new land was infertile. The land was meant for cattle raising, which they didn't know ho to do. They built a capital city called Tahlequah, and their nation was declared in September 6, 1839. John Ross who was elected by the Cherokee as the President of the Cherokee nation in 1827 continues his roll in the land, shared with another seventy tribes. They had opened up schools in the Indian Territory to continue their education for their children. The first Cherokee school opened in 1801 when the people were learning their language. Their written language, which consists of 85 characters, was said to be created by a Sequoia (1760-1843), a Cherokee leader. The Cherokee had mixed blood from the early British settlers and traders. Therefore, the Cherokee were educated in both languages. For over half a century the Cherokee have abstained from becoming American Citizens until 1906 when the Unites States made all

In the early nineteenth century during the presidency of Andrew Jackson and the debate of the Indian Removal Bill came one of the most important accomplishments of the Cherokee Nation, their own newspaper written in their own language. This experiment in Indian journalism began on February 21, 1828 in the Cherokee capital of New Echota. The paper employed a minimum staff of three to four people throughout its duration, often dismissing and rehiring printers. However, the most noteworthy of these were the people who first employed by the paper: journeyman printer John F. Wheeler, printer Isaac Harris, and editor Elias Boudinot. These men helped to further Cherokee nationalism by using a simple syllabery script,

slavery. His formality increases his ethos, showing his education. Take the first line of the letter,

Tecumseh was born on March 1768, Scioto River, Ohio. He was a member of the Shawnee tribe. When he was growing up, he was exposed to a lot of war violence.In 1774, his father, Pucksinwah, was killed by whites. His mother left him to accompany the Missouri River. He later was adopted by “Blackfish” the Shawnee chief.

The Cherokee, a very large tribe, lived in the region of the Smokey Appalachians Mountains. The Cherokee were forced to relocate to the Appalachian Mountains after they were defeated at war by the Delaware. The tribe was divided into seven clans. The tribe’s men were not allowed to marry within there tribes, this was a great taboo in the Cherokee society. The seven tribes inhabited North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Virginia and Georgia. Once the man married he left his tribe and went to live with his wife’s tribe. They spoke the Iroquoian language.

Sequoyah (ᏍᏏᏉᏯ) was born in Monroe County, Tennessee which is east of the Chillhowee Mountain. He lives about 8 miles away from New Echota, the old Cherokee Nation Capital. Sequoyah was born around 1760 - 1765 and died about 1843. Sequoyah’s mother's name is Wut-teh she belongs to the red paint clan, his father had left before Sequoyah was born, and he is believed to be known as George Gist, a German paddler of Nathaniel Gist, an English fur trader. The English name that was given to him was George Gist, his Cherokee name (S-si-qua-ya or ᏍᏏᏉᏯ) meant “pig’s foot”.

He convinced the leaders that it wasn’t witchcraft and that it was useful and harmless. In 1824, Sequoyah received a medal from the General Council of the Eastern Cherokee for creating the alphabet. Four years after, he made a deal that traded his land in Tennessee for land farther south in Oklahoma. He moved there and ten years later all of the other Cherokee are forced to move farther south as well on the Trail of Tears. Over fourteen hundred Cherokees died on the Trail of Tears. Sequoyah died in 1843 while traveling in

Tecumseh was born in 1768 at present day of Ohio, Columbus. He was a Shawnee Native American chief that opposed white settlement in the United States in the 1800s. His father was a minor war chief that was killed in the Battle of Port Pleasant. Later after his father died, his mother left him with his older sister, Tecumpease, and they migrated to Missouri. In 1780, Tecumseh joined his older brother in the raids against Kentucky and Tennessee.

Chief John Ross was born on October 3, 1790 in Alabama. His father was Scottish and his mother was part of the Cherokee. He was born as a Native American even if he was educated at Kingston academy in Tennessee. In the early 1900s he became the leader of the Cherokee and took over 43,000 square miles of land and lived there for centuries. Ross served as president from 1819 to 1826.

My mother woke me up early on a Monday morning, and told me something special was here for me. She brought me into the kitchen, I saw a big envelop on the kitchen table. The post said it was from Washington for Octavius Bellamy. When I got the invitation out of the envolpe there was this big golden sticker that kept the invitation together. The sticker had some fancy writting that said something. When I finally got the golden sticker to unattach from the invitation there was some blue cursive writting. As I read though the invitation my mouth was watery to see what the thing was.

A brief walk through the history of the ancient Remetch script and its decipherment. The history of hieroglyphics is dated as far back to approximately 3150 BCE and remained in use for over 3300 years for many aspect of life. During that period the script has gone through several writing styles. The first change attested during the Naqada II period was called cursive hieroglyphic (hieratic), followed by Sekh Shah (demotic), and finally Coptic. These changes came about for use as an everyday script, in which every glyphs (phonograms) was replaced by simpler symbols, as a means for faster writing.

to learn how to read and write he also emancipated the slaves and negotiated for the French

There has been much debate among researchers about the presence of formal education in Ancient Israel. There are scholars who believe the development of the linear alphabet led to widespread literacy in Ancient Israel and other parts of the Near East. However, there are others who believe, that while the linear alphabet was less extensive than the previously, pictographic texts used by the Phoenicians and Egyptians, there was still a learning curve which would have taken more than just a few days to learn. Even if it was possible to learn the alphabet in a few days and even be able to read shortly thereafter, it did not necessarily mean a person could write. By looking at the morphology of words and even the use of proper grammar in

Is the development of the writing system the most important factor that led to the rise of a civilization? How does our ancestor learned to write when school is not even available? Understand that writing system that I am referring is not the average of using tools such as ink and paper, but more of creative tool that has developed over time. In this essay, I will cover seven points on the importantance of a writing system in the ancient civilization.