The man accused of black magic created a writing system Cherokee could learn - here's the story about Sequoyah

Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system​: Initially met with suspicion and accusations of witchcraft, Sequoyah's revolutionary Cherokee syllabary was proven effective through a test with his daughter. This ...
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He never read a single book: The 200-year-old story of the Cherokee man whose script was once feared as black magic

Long before the Cherokee language appeared in newspapers, schoolbooks or street signs, it existed almost entirely in speech. Stories, customs, and memory moved from one generation to another by voice, ...
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The man who self-taught himself to create a writing system for the Cherokee people, who had no written language.

Sikwoia, who created the syllabic script for writing the Cherokee language, was suspected of practicing black magic because he kept writing strange symbols on paper. Writer and journalist Andrew ...