Sequoyah: Inventor of Written Cherokee
by Basel, Roberta
Series:Signature Lives: American Frontier Era
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AR Book Level
7.3
AR Points
2
Word Count
12,425
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
112527 EN
About this book
In 1821, after more than a decade of work, Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, succeeded in creating a set of symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Cherokee. The new written language was easy to learn and helped boost ethnic pride.