Many years after my fathers death, his autobiography was found, and the acknowledgement that his great grandfather was a Cherokee named George Gist, also known
as Sequoyah.This Cherokee was a man of great sensitivity and in his Honor and with humbled pride I take his name as my pen name... Sequoyah ..was the originator of the Cherokee alphabet , the first written
Cherokee language , called a syllabary , within a very short time , the Cherokee Nation became literate! Grandfather Sequoyah , I am proud of my heritage! sequoyah 2/14/1996 |
