The Great Ones · Indigenous North America
Sequoyah
Image: Lithographer: Lehman and Duval (George Lehman (d.1870); Peter S. Duval) Painter: Henry Inman (1801-20-28 - 1846-01-17); copy after a painting by Charles Bird King (1785 - 1862) which was lost in a fire in the Smithsonian in 1865. · Public domain · via Wikimedia Commons

Sequoyah

c. 1770–1843

Cherokee polymath who created the Cherokee writing system.

Sequoyah (c. 1770–1843) endures among the great of Indigenous North America. Cherokee polymath who created the Cherokee writing system.

Across the modern age, this life and its works passed into the shared inheritance of humankind — kept here so the memory is never lost.

Honored among the Great Ones of every civilization. Africa is the cradle of humankind; in the deepest sense, these are everyone’s ancestors — and so this name is kept, from the cradle of humanity to all its children.

Submitted with honor.

Submitted by the Honored Ancestors Editorial Committee.