The son of a Cherokee woman and a white fur trader, Sequoyah is famous for making which contribution to the Cherokee people?

Consisting of 86 symbols, each representing a syllable, Sequoyah's writing system gained the approval of Cherokee chiefs in 1825. The invention sparked the rapid spread of literacy among Cherokees and enabled a written record of their indigenous culture, including a constitution in 1827 and a bilingual newspaper published beginning in 1828.

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