Article March 13, 1902 Issue

Sequoyah

Inventor of the Cherokee Alphabet.

W. J. W.

Fort Smith (Ark.) Elevator

Seven wealthy towns contend for Homer dead, Through which the living Homer begged his bread.

The Cherokee language is peculiar one. No other Indian language resembles it. White missionaries have lived among the Cherokees a lifetime have never succeeded in learning it, and have always had interpreters by their side in preaching. The very few whites in the Nation that speak it fluently have been brought up among them from childhood. Even a Cherokee who does not learn his language when a child never learns it. Thousands of those who call themselves Cherokees cannot speak it. It is fast dying out in the Nation, and the English language is taking its place.

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