VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Cherokee Nation announced it is honoring the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language by declaring Oct. 15 as “Sequoyah Day.” The principal chief of the ...

The Cherokee Nation recognized Friday, Oct. 15 as "Sequoyah Day" in honor of the 200th anniversary of Sequoyah's creation of the Cherokee Syllabary. Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed the ...

CHEROKEE, NC: The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (Cherokee, NC) and Asheville Art Museum (Asheville, NC) have been awarded the North Carolina Museums Council’s 2021 Award of Excellence for the ...

CHEROKEE - In E.B White’s “Charlotte’s Web,” a barn spider befriends a pig and saves his life by writing messages in her web. Now students at New Kituwah Academy are using a translation of White’s ...

The Cherokee Nation has published the New Testament red letter edition of the Bible in the Cherokee syllabary for the first time, with books on sale to the public soon. In a news release, the tribe ...

Two hundred years ago, the brilliant statesman and inventor Sequoyah presented the Cherokee syllabary to the Cherokee Nation. This year we are honoring the bicentennial of Sequoyah’s historic ...

Is anyone out there familiar with the Cherokee syllabary? I saw this sign stuck in the ground near Lake Junaluska, North Carolina: (Yes, those are grass clippings on the sign.) I figured out that it ...

At first glance, it looked like a set of black numbers and letters written in English, perhaps with some symbols included. "People had probably been looking at and passing by this for years, but they ...