As almost everyone knows, sequoia is the name given to a giant tree typical of California’s Sierra Nevada that can exceed one hundred meters in height and ten meters in diameter. However, one of its ...

SALLASAW, Okla.—Of the Native Americans historically noted, Sequoyah is less known. Yet Sequoyah’s contribution to the Cherokee people is so significant that his log home, nestled in the rolling hills ...

For years, people mocked him. They watched as he spent countless hours scratching strange symbols onto scraps of paper, muttering sounds to himself and obsessively refining mysterious marks no one ...

Sequoyah was fascinated by books and letters, enchanted by the way people could divine meaning from ink-stained scribbles on a written page. Born circa the 1760s in what is now Tennessee and trained ...

Who was the man for whom Sequoya Caverns was named? Sequoyah was an influential member of the Cherokee Nation, born around 1776, who would accomplish a rare feat in his life: Creation of a syllabary ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper Mike Vuolo Mike Vuolo is a radio and podcast producer and the host of Lexicon Valley. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ ...

Like many others, I sometimes despair over the condition of education in America. However, I try to periodically remind myself of two historical events which demonstrate that great strides in ...

Sequoyah is one of the most important Tennesseans to have ever lived. But no matter what book you read, video you watch or website you click on, you'll find a different account of his life. That is ...