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Much scholarship has treated Sequoyah’s early life and the invention of the syllabary including Margaret Bender’s Signs of Cherokee Culture Sequoyah’s Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life (University of North Carolina Press, 2002) and my own book, The Cherokee Syllabary Writing the People’s Perseverance (Oklahoma Press, 2011). The invention of the syllabary led to the production of uniquely Cherokee intellectual traditions overviewed in James Parins’s Literacy and Intellectual Life in the Cherokee Nation, 1820–1906 (Oklahoma Press 2013) and the establishment of Cherokee governing documents as discussed in Steve Russell’s Sequoyah Rising: Problems in Post-Colonial Tribal Governance (Carolina Academic Press, 2010) and Kirby Brown’s, Stoking the Fire: Nationhood in Cherokee Writing, 1907-1970 (Oklahoma Press, 2018). The creation of the syllabary helped elders memorialize cultural practices (Kilpatrick; Mooney; Walker and Sarbaugh; Carroll) histories (King), and stories (Teuton). Translations of the everyday reading and writing practices can be found in the collected works of Anna Gritts Kilpatrick and Jack Kilpatrick, including The Shadow of Sequoyah: Social Documents of the Cherokees, 1862-1964, Oklahoma Press, 1965 and New Echota Letters: Contributions of Sammuel A. Worcester to the Cherokee Phoenix, Southern Methodist University Press. Modern uses of the Cherokee syllabary are found online in Wikipedia pages and in the Cherokee New Testament. The Cherokee syllabary remains an important symbol of Cherokee identity (M. C. Bender; Cushman, “We’re Taking the Genius of Sequoyah into This Century”; and Cushman, “Wampum, Sequoyan, and Story”).