Originator of the Cherokee Indian alphabet.

Two miles east of this spot is New Echota, the last

Indian capital in Georgia, where Sequoyah lived.

Here was published the "Cherokee Phoenix" only

newspaper edited in an Indian language. Indian

cemetery is at New Echota where was signed

important treaty ceding lands to the United States.

Photo: Ed Jackson

© Carl Vinson Institute of Government, University of Georgia

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