Sequoyah: the Cherokee man who gave his people writing

While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determine...

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1. Verfasser: Rumford, James 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Huckaby, Anna Sixkiller (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Cherokee
Veröffentlicht: Boston Houghton Mifflin Co. 2004
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Zusammenfassung:While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors feared the symbols he wrote and burned down his home. All of his work was lost, but, still determined, he tried another approach. The Cherokee people finally accepted the written language after Sequoyah taught his six-year-old daughter to read
Beschreibung:Title also in Cherokee
Beschreibung:32 unnumbered pages color illustrations 30 cm
ISBN:9780618369478

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