To improve contact with British colonists, the Cherokee Sequoyah developed his own tribal script with 85 characters.

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 ...

The Cherokee Nation has published the New Testament red letter edition of the Bible in the Cherokee syllabary for the first time, with books on sale to the public soon. In a news release, the tribe ...

The Cherokee Nation recognized Friday, Oct. 15 as "Sequoyah Day" in honor of the 200th anniversary of Sequoyah's creation of the Cherokee Syllabary. Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed the ...

DARIEN | Printing in the Cherokee language is not as easy as ABC, book artist Frank Brannon has found. Brannon, who is serving a short residency at Ashantilly Center, is helping to preserve the ...

Two hundred years ago, the brilliant statesman and inventor Sequoyah presented the Cherokee syllabary to the Cherokee Nation. This year we are honoring the bicentennial of Sequoyah’s historic ...

CHEROKEE - In E.B White’s “Charlotte’s Web,” a barn spider befriends a pig and saves his life by writing messages in her web. Now students at New Kituwah Academy are using a translation of White’s ...

Is anyone out there familiar with the Cherokee syllabary? I saw this sign stuck in the ground near Lake Junaluska, North Carolina: (Yes, those are grass clippings on the sign.) I figured out that it ...