Wikimedia Commons/Charles Bird King How Cherokee Leader Sequoyah Ensured His People’s Language Survived In 1809, a Cherokee ...

Sequoyah, born around 1770 in what is now Tennessee, was a Cherokee blacksmith, soldier and visionary whose invention changed the future of his people.

However, an 1828 story in the Cherokee Phoenix said the idea came to Sequoyah when he overheard a conversation between young men talking about the ability of white men to put their language on paper.

The Cherokee language has become far less prevalent over the decades. Only about 8,000 Cherokee speakers remain — a small fraction of the tribe's 290,000 members — and most are 50 or older.

“This is a day to remember the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language,” Charlie Rhodarmer, museum manager/director, said. “In 5,000 years of human civilization, Sequoyah ...

From a Cherokee perspective, the look and message behind the United States’ currency has improved two-fold in 2016, with the emergence of the Cherokee language and Sequoyah’s image on the ...

Google made Cherokee a "searchable" language on the World Wide Web on Friday after computer programmers spent more than a year working side-by-side with translators from the tribe.

The Cherokee Nation plans to open what the tribe believes is the nations largest indigenous language center. The center will consolidate language instruction translation services into a single ...