Sequoyah was born around 1770 near what is now Knoxville, Tennessee. His best-known achievement was the Cherokee syllabary, the first writing system for a Native American language. Sequoyah could not read or write any other language when he created his system. Sequoyah moved to Arkansas in 1825 and passed away in Mexico in 1843.
Image: “Sequoyah” by Henry Inman after Charles Bird King (c. 1830). From the Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery
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