Sequoyah the Cherokee man who gave his people writing

While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he...

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Main Author: Rumford, James, 1948-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Cherokee
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2004.
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