Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system​: Initially met with suspicion and accusations of witchcraft, Sequoyah's revolutionary ...

Long before the Cherokee language appeared in newspapers, schoolbooks or street signs, it existed almost entirely in speech.

Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of ...

Sequoyah, a Cherokee innovator, developed a unique writing system for his people. This invention transformed the Cherokee ...

VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Cherokee Nation announced it is honoring the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language by declaring Oct. 15 as “Sequoyah Day.” The principal chief of the ...

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 ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have finally interpreted Cherokee tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave hundreds of years ago. News outlets report the inscriptions ...