Harry Ritchie

Celebrating Sequoyah and his Cherokee alphabet

The writing system the Native American devised for his people was soon followed by a printing press, a newspaper and a far higher literacy rate than that of their oppressors

Sequoyah with his Cherokee alphabet. [Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images] 
issue 24 August 2024
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