Here is another interesting "footnote to history," found in a book called the "Chickasaw Nation. Tn a speech mado when a statute of Sequoyah, a Cherokee Indian, was placed in the Capitol at Washington, D.C., this statement was made by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma: —"No alphabet in all the world reaches the simplicity and the value of the Cherokee alphabet, as invented by Sequoyah. With the Sequoyah alphabet a Cherokee could Jeai-n to spell in one day. So great an intellectual accomplishment was this that Canon [vingsfev named the great red cedars of California 'sequoias,' because., they ■.vera tvmca, ot the greatest wrfiv* 4 r__Lt. i! Tn.Tl'an 11
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17747, 26 April 1923, Page 11
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