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Sequoyah (/ s ə ˈ k w ɔɪ ə / sə-QUOY-yə; Cherokee: ᏍᏏᏉᏯ, Ssiquoya, [a] or ᏎᏉᏯ, Sequoya, [b] pronounced; c. 1770 – August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation.
The State of Sequoyah was a proposed state to be established from the Indian Territory in eastern present-day Oklahoma.In 1905, with the end of tribal governments looming, [1] Native Americans (the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole) in Indian Territory proposed to create a state as a means to retain control of their lands.
Hospital Rock was once home to 500 Potwisha Native Americans. Archaeological evidence shows settlement as early as 1350, and bedrock mortar sites and pictographs remain. [2] The Native Americans mostly used this site in the winter months.
The area which now is Sequoia National Park shows evidence of Native American settlement as early as AD 1000. [15] The area was first home to "Monachee" ( Western Mono ) Native Americans , who resided mainly in the Kaweah River drainage in the Foothills region of what is now the park, though evidence of seasonal habitation exists as high as the ...
James A. Norman (Cherokee) promoted a constitutional convention to organize an American Indian state. In a 1904 pamphlet he suggested naming the state "Sequoyah" to honor the Cherokee who had developed the Cherokee syllabary , the first independently created written form of an indigenous language in North America.
Sequoia protects some of the largest trees in the world and a wide array of habitats. “I would say the most special feature is that you enter at about, I want to say, 1,600 feet of elevation and ...
This national park is famous for its majestic sequoia trees, and there’s lots of attention about how the recent large forest fires have affected them. Although the fires burned mainly at low and ...
The Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks is the consolidated management structure for Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in California. Both parks have been jointly administered since 1943. They have a combined size of 1,353 square miles (3,500 km 2). [1] It was designated the UNESCO Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve ...