The Cherokee Bible, one of the language’s first books, is a window between worldviews
- Written by Margaret Bender, Professor of Anthropology, Wake Forest University
Sequoyah's invention of a Cherokee syllabary helped translate the Bible soon after missionaries' arrival.Wesley Fryer/Cherokee Heritage Center via Wikimedia Commons, CC BYIf you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a...
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