New Echota Letters: Contributions of Samuel A. Worcester to the Cherokee Phoenix

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 390
Author(s):  
Clyde E. Henson ◽  
Samuel A. Worcester ◽  
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick ◽  
Anna Gritts Kilpatrick
Keyword(s):  
Cherokee Phoenix

3. To write in English

2018 ◽  
pp. 35-50
Author(s):  
Sean Teuton
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Native People ◽  
Indigenous Language ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Cherokee Nation ◽  
Rational Agents ◽  
Cherokee Phoenix ◽  
Written Word

‘To write in English’ explains how the written word allowed Native Americans to more easily pass on the oral literature of their people and to be recognized as educated and rational agents. In 1815, Sequoyah, a Cherokee silversmith, single-handedly invented a written language, which was embraced by the Cherokee Nation. By the late 1820s, most Cherokees could write in Sequoyan and, with the eventual success of missionary schools, many could speak, read, and write English. In 1828, the first issue of North America’s first indigenous language newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix, was published. The paper declared in English and Cherokee the vital role that American literacy would play in transforming Native people.

The Press of the Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper as Artifact

Native South ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-143
Author(s):  
Frank Brannon
Keyword(s):  
The Press ◽  
Cherokee Phoenix

The Cherokee Phoenix: The Short, Unhappy Life of the First American Indian Newspaper

1976 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sam G. Riley
Keyword(s):  
American Indian ◽  
Cherokee Phoenix

Tribal problems and white harassment combined to end the weekly publication in 1834.

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