Sequoyah's Gift: A Portrait of the Cherokee Leader
- ISBN-10
- 0060212365
- ISBN-13
- 9780060212360
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 111
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1993
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Author
- Janet Klausner
Description
A biography of the Cherokee Indian who created a method for his people to write and read their own language.
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- 1993
- 111 pages
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- Harpercollins Childrens Books
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