Sequoyah (c1770–1843), son of a Cherokee woman and a fur trader from Virginia, was a warrior, hunter, and silversmith who for twelve years worked to devise a method of writing for the Cherokee language. (From a painted portrait by Henry Inman, c1830, after an earlier portrait by Charles Bird King which was destroyed in the Smithsonian Castle fire of 1865.)

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