The park name honors Sequoyah, a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, enabling reading and writing in Cherokee. His achievement was one of the few times in recorded history that an individual member of a pre-literate group created an original, effective writing system. His creation of the syllabary turned the Cherokee Nation into one of the first North American indigenous groups with a written language. By 1830, more than 90 percent of Cherokees were literate in the new language.
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