The+Cherokee

Cherokee Indian Language
 * In Tennessee, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, road signs are marked with unfamiliar symbols that don't correspond to English letters. People that pass through these places wonder what the symbols mean. They are looking at signs written in the Cherokee language. In spite of 100 years worth of efforts to stamp it out, there are still about 22,000 native Cherokee speakers alive today. ||
 * The Cherokee language is unique among Native American languages in that it is both a written and spoken language. Written Cherokee, or Tsalagi as it's more properly called, has a full collection of symbols in which each symbol corresponds to a sound. Here’s one of the stories of how the syllabary was invented.

The most commonly told story and the one with the most historical evidence is that it was created around 1821 by a Cherokee Indian named George Guess or Gist, known as Sogwali and Sequoyah to white people who didn't bother to get the spelling of his name right .Sequoyah invented the Tsalagi alphabet after seeing how white settlers were able to communicate in writing. He taught it first to his daughter, then to as many Cherokee as were willing to learn it-eventually educating thousands of his people.

** The Cherokee Indians **


 * Trail of Tears was the Cherokee’s name for Indian removal
 * Used bows and arrows or blowguns to shoot game
 * Usually settled in villages near a river
 * Live in the southwest regions in the U.S.
 * The Medicine Man would prepare feathers for the men to wear in war
 * Pierced their ears and made earrings out of shell and bone
 * Played stick ball-stick ball is like baseball but played with a stick

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