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Birth
1 Sometime around 1773 a Cherokee woman named Wuh-teh gave birth to a son named sequoyah. -
War of 1812
2 Sequoyah joined the U.S army as a soldier sequoyah saw how useful writing could be. -
Finishing education
3 After twelve long years sequoyah finished the alphabet. -
Traveling to teach
4 sequayah traveled to Cherokee towns to teach the alphabet. -
A First Constitution
5 The Cherokee nation drafted a constitution. -
Trail to Death
6 the us government planned to move the Cherokee and other nations off the eastern is lands to oklahoma -
Leaving Home
7 The us army sent troops to round up the Cherokee and march them to oklahoma. -
Still teaching
8 Sequayah went to Mexico to visit a group that had not learn his alphabet. -
Death
9 By then, Sequoyah was an old man became sick and died.