Sequoia guess history or biography

Sequoyah, also known as George Guess and George Gist, is best known for his development of the Cherokee syllabary, a notational system that transcribed the sounds of spoken Cherokee into a written form.

When was sequoyah born

But during his long life, Sequoyah played many roles in Cherokee society.

Sequoyah was born circa to a Cherokee mother and an Anglo-European father. There is no record of his having a formal education. He made a living at various periods as a blacksmith and a silversmith, trades that developed as a result of Cherokee contact with European culture, although he was a traditionalist in supporting Cherokee cultural and territorial integrity.

When the first large group of Cherokee prepared to move from the Cherokee heartland of Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia to Arkansas in , Sequoyah at first declared his intention to move west but instead settled his family near Willstown in northeast Alabama.

Here, he likely began work on his syllabary. Though it is not known w