Sequoyah : the Cherokee man who gave his people writing
James Rumford, Anna Sixkiller Huckaby (Translator)
While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read
Bilingual books
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
9780618369478, 9781415560877, 0618369473, 1415560870
54082172
Title also in Cherokee
English and Cherokee