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Initial issue of the Cherokee Phoenix is the first periodical to use the Cherokee syllabary invented by Sequoyah.
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Cherokee Phoenix
Native American newspaper
The Cherokee Phoenix is the first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language. The first issue was published in English and Cherokee on February 21, 1828, in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation. The…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Cherokee syllabary
Writing system invented by Sequoyah to write the Cherokee language
The Cherokee syllabary is a syllabary invented by Sequoyah in the late 1810s and early 1820s to write the Cherokee language. His creation of the syllabary is particularly noteworthy as he was illiterate until its creation. He first experimented with logograms, but his system…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Sequoyah
Cherokee polymath and creator of the Cherokee syllabary
Sequoyah, also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)