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	Sequoyah and Cherokee Syllabary
		The Cherokee people have been known by a dozen names and their language is known to be an aberrant form of the Iroquoian linguistic family.
		Cherokee oral traditions indicate that the Cherokee people had some form of written language, but its use progressively decayed in the period between sixteenth and eighteenth century due to their changing fortunes, subsequent migration to the mountains in the southeast, and continued isolation of their people in various parts of the Americas.
		About two decades later, the last Cherokee Native-American chief by the name Ramadhan Ibn Wati (popularly known as Stand Watie [1806-71]; there is no R in Cherokee Syllabary), who served as a Confederate brigadier general, surrendered his command to the United States on June 23, 1865.
	www.cyberistan.org /islamic/sequoyah1.htm (1280 words)

	Dissertations
		Cherokee people employed the ball game as an aspect of tourist trade in earlier centuries, and this continued throughout the twentieth century, as they presented certain elements of the anetso complex to the rest of the world while privately maintaining many of the traditions associated with it.
		Finally, the dissertation explores the role played by the syllabary in the context of tourism, and seeks to describe the various types of value the syllabary holds and accrues in possession, usage, and circulation--as a boundary-setting code, source of metalinguistic knowledge, and as an agent and medium of commodification.
		It is concluded that Cherokee settlements, located exclusively in riverbottoms along the major streams of their territory, meant that the best agricultural land was being utilized and that there was ready access to the forest zones containing the greatest concentration of plant and animal life.
	www.wcu.edu /cherokeestudies/Dissertations.htm (3480 words)

	Sequoyah -- Tell Them They Lie excerpts
		Over and over again, the discovery of the Cherokee syllabary by the American press and public in 1825 proclaimed Sequoyah a Cadmus and the bastard son of a white man who traded with the Cherokees east of the Mississippi River during the middle of the eighteenth century.
		In the fall of 1816, a letter written in the syllabary by Sequoyah to his half-blood brother, Whitepath, was accidentally intercepted by the Cherokee police or so-called Light-Horse Guard of the nation.
		A symbol syllabary, and a hand-printed dictionary of all Cherokee words and their meanings were presented to each village, along with a Cherokee number syllabary up to one million.
	www.enformy.com /dma-ls05.htm (3232 words)

	Cherokee language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cherokee only has one labial consonant, /m/, which is relatively new to the language, unless one counts the Cherokee w a labial instead of a velar.
		Cherokee is written in a syllabary invented by Sequoyah (also known as George Guess).
		Cherokee is also supported by free fonts found at languagegeek.com, and the shareware fonts Code2000 and Everson Mono.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee_language (644 words)

	syllabary Information Center - printable cherokee syllabary
		As in many syllabaries, however, vowel sequences cuneiform syllabary and final consonants are written with separate glyphs, so that both atta and kaita are written with three kana: a-t-ta and ka-i-ta.
		A work-around to this problem, common to several syllabaries sumeriancuneiform syllabary around the world, is to write an echo vowel, as if the syllable coda was a second syllable: ba-ga or ba-gi for "bag", etc. Another common approach is to simply ignore the coda, so that "bag" would be written ba.
		These are sometimes sanskrit syllabary mistaken for syllabaries, but unlike in syllabaries, all syllables starting with the same consonant are based on the same symbol, and generally more than one symbol is eskaya syllabary sumerian cuneiform syllabary needed to represent a syllable.
	www.scipeeps.com /Sci-Linguistic_Topics_R_-_T/syllabary.html (517 words)

	Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life, by Margaret Bender. Introduction. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cherokee literacy occupies a central position in what is sometimes characterized as the triadic complex of hegemony, ideology, and resistance (e.g., Comaroff and Comaroff 1991; Philips 1998).
		Cherokee beliefs about literacy emerge from a borderland at which a dominant culture meets a resistant one, a borderland characterized by a tension between conscious and unconscious beliefs, between acceptance of the dominant society's values and resistance to them.
		The syllabary's complex relationship to the dominant culture is nowhere more evident than in the public space inhabited by tourists, where the syllabary serves different semiotic roles in marking spaces and objects appropriate for outsiders and in marking spaces as part of the genuine community infrastructure.
	uncpress.unc.edu /chapters/bender_signs.html (5928 words)

	Newswise
		The Cherokee syllabary is still very much in use-in Cherokee language education, in churches, in Cherokee newspapers and other publications, she says.
		The syllabary characters are also used in signs around the community to identify buildings as part of the Cherokee social and political structure, she says.
		Syllabary characters also are used by the Cherokee to convey cultural pride and recognize achievements.
	www.newswise.com /articles/view/?id=CHEROKEE.WFU (625 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Cherokee Removal
		The removal of the Cherokees was a product of the demand for arable land during the rampant growth of cotton agriculture in the Southeast, the discovery of gold on Cherokee land, and the racial prejudice that many white southerners harbored toward American Indians.
		Settlers of European ancestry began moving into Cherokee territory in the early eighteenth century; from that point forward, the colonial governments in the area began demanding that the Cherokees cede their territory.
		A Cherokee man named Sequoyah created the Cherokee syllabary, which enabled the Cherokees to read, write, record their laws, and publish newspapers in their own language.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2722 (1341 words)

	Sequoyah - Inventor of the Cherokee Syllabary
		Sequoyah was born sometime between 1760 and 1776 in Overhills country near the Cherokee village of Tushkeegee on the Tennessee River near old Fort Loudoun in Tennessee.
		In 1824 the Cherokee National Council at New Echota, Georgia, honored him with a silver medal, which he proudly wore for the rest of his life, and later with an annuity of $300, which his widow continued to receive after his death.
		According to legend, the primeval Cherokee written language was lost as the tribe migrated across the continent and their numbers dwindled according to living conditions and influences of more numerous neighbors.
	www.manataka.org /page81.html (1259 words)

	Cherokee syllabary and language
		Sequoyah's descendants claim that he was the last surviving member of his tribe's scribe clan and the Cherokee syllabary was invented by persons unknown at a much earlier date.
		By 1820 thousands of Cherokees had learnt the syllabary, and by 1830, 90% were literate in their own language.
		Today the syllabary is still used, efforts are being made to revive both the Cherokee language and the Cherokee syllabary, and Cherokee courses are offered at a number of schools, colleges and universities.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/cherokee.htm (237 words)

	Ancient Scripts: Cherokee
		The Cherokee syllabary was invented by a member of the Cherokee nation named Sequoya around 1821.
		The Cherokee syllabary gained almost universal acceptance in the Cherokee community after its introduction in 1821.
		Cherokee was used in both printed as well as hand-written media, and included publications such as newspapers, magazines, and books.
	www.ancientscripts.com /cherokee.html (302 words)

	Facts for Kids: Cherokee Indians (Cherokees)
		Most Cherokees were relocated to Oklahoma in the 1800's by the infamous Trail of Tears, and the descendants of those who survived this death march still live in Oklahoma to this day.
		In the past, each Cherokee band was led by one war chief and one peace chief, chosen by a tribal council on the basis of their great deeds for the tribe.
		Cherokee men usually shaved their heads except for a single scalplock, and sometimes they would also wear a porcupine roach.
	www.geocities.com /bigorrin/cherokee_kids.htm (1433 words)

	Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Cherokee (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Cherokees were eventually forced to sign over much of their land, first to the British and then to the United States.
		The Cherokee Nation was established with a democratic government composed of a Chief, Vice-Chief, and 32 Council Members who were elected by the members of the tribe.
		The Cherokees were taken from their homes, held in stockades, and forced to move to Oklahoma and Arkansas.
	www.nps.gov /grsm/historyculture/cherokee.htm (999 words)

	Sequoyah
		Sequoyah and other Cherokees enlisted on the side of the United States under General Andrew Jackson to fight the British troops and the Creek Indians in the war of 1812.
		Unlike the white soldiers, he and the other Cherokees were not able to write letters home, read military orders, or record events as they occurred.
		By 1828 they were publishing the "Cherokee Phoenix," the first national bi-lingual newspaper, along with religious pamphlets, educational materials and legal documents.
	www.sequoyahmuseum.org /SequoyahHistory.html (333 words)

	Cherokee Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Cherokee Indians Smoky Mountains - The first native peoples arrived in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains about A.D. They were believed to have been a branch of the Iroquois, later to be called Cherokee Indians, who moved south from Iroquoian lands in New England.
		The Cherokee Indians were eventually forced to sign over much of their land, first to the British and then to the United States.
		Before their arrival, Cades Cove Tn was part of Cherokee Nation, who called the Cove, Tsiyaha or "place of the river otter." Cherokee Indians never lived in the Cove, but used the land as its summer hunting ground for river otters, elk and bison.
	www.smokymtnmall.com /mall/cindians.html (1318 words)

	South Carolina SC - Indians, Native Americans - Cherokee
		Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquios, and United Tribes of South Carolina were recognized in 2005 as a group by the state of South Carolina.
		Traditional: The foothills of northwestern South Carolina in Anderson, Cherokee, Greenville, Oconee, Pickens, and Spartanburg counties.
		It was estimated that 13,000 Cherokee started this journey and that at least one-fourth died of hunger and exhaustion.
	sciway.net /hist/indians/cherokee.html (825 words)

	Learn Cherokee - Cherokee Books, Courses, Video, and Software
		This book, the first of it's kind, teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans, although most of those who speak it use it only as a second language.
		In the Eastern Sampler, Marie Junaluska, tribal translator of the Eastern Band of Cherokees, recites the syllabary giving you the pronunciation of the language as it is spoken on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee NC.
		In this well-researched dictionary, Cherokee words are spelled in two ways: in the Cherokee syllabary and in an alphabetic spelling.
	www.101language.com /cherokee.html (1667 words)

	Cherokee, Cherokee Ancestry, Cherokee Language, Native American Practices & Rituals . . .
		My sister Ahinawake was also born in Cherokee, NC and currently lives on the reservation, as well as, the majority of my mom's family with the exception of very few family members.
		Cherokee society is matrilineal and when Cherokee names are given to a newborn, an elder (typically the grandmother) of the Cherokee family give the name to the child.
		The Eastern Band of Cherokee's is headquartered in Cherokee, North Carolina with approximately 12,000 tribal members and is the smallest of the three.
	www.drstandley.com /nativeamerican_index.shtml (1737 words)

	Cherokee Language and the Cherokee Indian Tribe (Tsalagi, Tsa-la-gi, Aniyunwiya)
		History: The best-known episode in Cherokee history was also the worst: the Trail of Tears, the forced relocation of the Cherokee Indians from their ancestral home in the southeast to Oklahoma.
		Fifteen to twenty thousand Cherokee Indians (along with Choctaw, Creek, and other tribes) were rounded up and herded to Oklahoma in the winter of 1838-1839.
		If you understand this, both the extent to which the Cherokees had adopted American standards of civilization before the Removal and the ultimate futility of it, you will go a long way towards understanding the Cherokee mentality and also the attitudes of other Indian peoples towards us.
	www.native-languages.org /cherokee.htm (651 words)

	Sequoyah and the Cherokee Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A syllabary is an alphabet where each symbol represents a syllable.
		Cherokee is a tonal language and the most musical of all the Iroquian languages.
		The syllabary, led to the founding of the Cherokee Phoenix, a Cherokee language newspaper, on February 21, 1828.
	www.eveningrain.com /Sequoyah.html (402 words)

	Cherokee Companion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		We do know, however, that the Cherokees had developed a complex civilization, with their own language, and a well-balanced system of local (city) governments, each comprised of seven clans, and requiring the participation of both men and women in order to function.
		One band of Cherokees, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, is at the time of this writing, the second-largest "recognized tribe" in the United States.
		The Cherokee Companion software presents 84 of them, excluding one of the three symbols for the "NAH" syllable, and another which was dropped by Sequoyah several years after he created the syllabary.
	intertribal.net /NAT/Cherokee/WebPgCC1/CC1home.htm (1226 words)

	Sequoyah's Talking Leaves
		Realizing a key to development of the Cherokee Nation was a written language, Sequoyah began work on a graphic representation of the Cherokee language.
		The syllabary, officially listed as being completed in 1821, took 12 years to create.
		His work was interupted by the Creek War of 1813-1814, when he joined a Cherokee force under the leadership of The Ridge.
	ngeorgia.com /history/alphabet.html (533 words)

	The Official Cherokee Font
		The Cherokee character for the syllable ‘we’ is produced when typing the ‘p’ key and the character for the syllable ‘sa’ is produced when typing the ‘A’ key.
		The Cherokee font is not a translator, but simply a typeface producing the Cherokee syllabary on your computer.
		The proper Cherokee words are not produced unless you use the appropriate keys to obtain the syllable desired.
	www.cherokee.org /home.aspx?section=culture&culture=dldisplay&ID=NJ1eYu1xTrA= (251 words)

	The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (www.cherokeemuseum.org)
		He found a handwritten page of syllabary with phonetic translations that corresponds to the old script used in most of the handwritten documents in Cherokee syllabary from the 1800s and 1900s.
		Today people write the syllabary in the form developed by Samuel Worcester, a missionary who printed the Bible and Cherokee Phoenix in 1828, whose printed chart is the form of the syllabary most people recognize.
		This form of writing was passed from one Cherokee person to another from 1821 through the 1980s.
	www.cherokeemuseum.org /html/visitor_events.html (564 words)

	Cherokees of California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Cherokee alphabet is written in the syllabary form.
		A syllabary is an alphabet in which each letter in a word stands for a whole syllable (such as "ga") instead of a single letter (such as "g").
		In Western Cherokee the syllables are usually pronounced as the "j" in jaw.
	www.powersource.com /cocinc/language/syllab.htm (448 words)

	Cherokee Syllabary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The story he tells of the origins of the Cherokee's ability to write their own language and Sequoyah's role in bringing universal literacy to his people differs greatly from what is taught in the history books.
		One assertion made by Traveler Bird, which is supported by other evidence, is that the original form of the syllabary was modified by white missionaries to allow the easier creation of typeset.
		Typset Cherokee Syllabary as modified by the Rev. Samuel A. Worcester
	www2.privatei.com /~bartjean/cherok.htm (189 words)

	Tsalagi Syllabary
		The Cherokee Syllabary was finished by Sequoyah (George Guess) in 1821, after 12 years of work.
		A syllabary is an alphabet where each symbol stands for a syllable.
		In Cherokee, there are 85 symbols, each representing a different syllable and sound.
	public.csusm.edu /public/raven/cherokee.dir/syll.html (185 words)

	A Modern-Day Sequoya: Perfecting a Cherokee Language Syllabary - Woodenturtle
		Feeling's project is to revise and refine the written Cherokee syllabary that Sequoya developed in the early 1800s.
		Seminar participants were taught basic reading and writing of the Sequoya syllabary, some linguistics, and highlights of Cherokee culture and history.
		He conducts the institute with guest speakers from the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma and university staff members from Irvine, UCLA, and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1992/May/Sa20475.htm (341 words)

	Cherokee Language Text Editor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Tsulehisanvhi Cherokee Language Text Editor is an application designed to make it easy to compose documents in the Cherokee syllabary.
		The Cherokee Nation has created a font to represent the Cherokee syllabary, but in order to use it you were required to learn a complex and unnatural keyboard mapping.
		The name "Tsulehisanvhi" means "Phoenix" in Cherokee, this is the name of the newspaper founded by the Cherokee Nation in 1828 which was published in both Cherokee and English.
	members.cox.net /cherokeeeditor (447 words)

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