Cherokee Storytelling: The Story of Sequoyah 

@Tom Collen… I am getting close to 60 and learning Tsalagi… :):)

I am 20 and really want to learn, of course it is difficult to converse with people. Not many options.

I am 20 and learning too. There are no native speakers where I live so I found a church that uses the language, so I can listen to native speakers each week.

As an Indonesian Muslim, I feel proud that Native Americans accept Islamic teachings. Historically, Native American tribes had previously embraced Islamic teachings (the Cherokee). They became apostates (Christians) by the Spanish conquistadors. Native American tribes have known monotheism. And know God. If asked who is your Lord??... The answer is Praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds and all the blessings He has bestowed. There is no god but Him (Allah). And Allah says in the Qur'an Surah Thaha: 14 'Verily I am Allah, there is no god but Me, so worship Me and pray to remember Me.

Ray we are family he is my 6th Great Grandfather .

Beautifull legacy's. Keep going forward . But never afraid to step back

Idk where I fall into any of this but my 4th or 5th grandfather is James secondine (being the English translation of the last name segundi or something) he was a Cherokee chief a while back and I don’t know much about him but trying to learn a little

@@cannonsharp8620 segundis nuts

@@beedle556 THATS SO DISRESPECTFUL BUT SO FUNNY HHELP HAHAHAHSB

Perhaps this will ring in your heart. My great uncle was all cherokee, I'm a mixed breed and at a point of my childhood while he was teaching me I complained I wasn't truly cherokee. He told me very seriously "being Cherokee is more a matter of heart, than of blood". He truly meant it, an not just for me. But believed many are be born in the body of other race's to learn other's ways. "To see us through their eyes". An thank you for saying Indian instead of native. As uncle would say "of course I'm native, I was born here". He didn't like being called native because of his ancestry. Harmony be yours.

@@greyhawk4898 I really appreciate you letting me enjoy and learn this about your story. I will learn from your great uncle through you. My heart soars thanks. …Peacefully

@@CalvinsCorner72 you're very welcome, I hope it helps you along your path. Harmony

New Echota was not the last Cherokee town. Tahlequah is the Capitol of the Western Cherokee in Oklahoma. It has been around now for almost 200 years.

@@Dona48083 omg thank you!! ♥️💕 I would love to know more!! 💜

Could you provide a source, please.

yo también, soy cherokee

Si quiere saber más yo puedo contar todo eso a usted . El es un ancestro mío y conozco su historia.

I use a couple of Samsung s5 active cell phones. Sure thing. Be fun. Glad you liked it.

Sequoyah told a white man with a straight face that he had 6 wives. I read that in one of Robert Conley's history books of Cherokee, but Sequoyah was just putting people on. Goldenhawk Sizemore said in court records in, I forget, Knott or Leslie County Ky, with a straight face that he had 50 wives. Internet said one of my great great or great great great grandpas Ned Sizemore had 50 wives. I suspect, Cherokee humor!

If you are a researcher, you might want to read Dr. Fleenor's book, which has tantalizing references to Gists, Guests etc. At one point he talks about the Chickamaguan Benge hiding out from the militia in the Guest house in Coeburn, Va. I wondered if it was Gist house. He even has a photo of one of the women's houses on the N. Holstein River. It looks clapboard, but i bet it was a big ole cabin, later covered with that siding.

I think it was just a sense of humor.

If you do any research in SW Va on Sequoyah, do not get confused over state lines. Part of Tenn and Va were called NC before state lines were settled. That area wrapping around the east side of Ky was called the "squabble state". If you read somebody was from NC, it might be what we now call Va or Tenn.

There is some guy repeating the story that Ned had 50 wives over in Va. as evidence of Cherokee paganism. That is wrong! My great grandpa 7 or 8 generations back was Ned Sizemore who m. Mahalia Fields, d. of Abigail Creech, Cherokee wife of Davis or David Fields, 2nd generation from a boat.This Ned was murdered, my we think. His father was probably Old Ned Creech. Old Ned had a large family. His first son was Ned, and so was his last child... according to one record I saw. Well that makes sense if his first son named Ned was murdered. We think he was killed on the trail when he tried to go back to NC (or maybe Va) to log his walnuts. He had just moved his wife to Scuttlehole Gap on the Ky side. But there was a Va. State line marker on that road. We think somebody killed him to get those trees. He never returned, but left Mahalia a well, a cabin, a gun. The well is still up there! a man just told me. Mahalia kept the English sounding name Fields after Ned disappeared abd that is where Fieldses in SE Ky got one start.

They have their own belief system. Your just brain washed.

Link to this blog please

Wow really.

@@RendezvouDoo No, not really, unless Mak Elsa can provide a link to support it. I never heard this even in passing.

U R

then mind your business fool.