"Cherokee linguist" . . "Gist, George Gist; Guess,George"@en . . "1770Z"^^ . . . . . . "1843Z"^^ . "Sequoyah (\u13CD\u13CF\u13C9\u13EF Ssiquoya, as he signed his name, or \u13CE\u13C9\u13EF Se-quo-ya, as his name is often spelled today in Cherokee) (c. 1770\u20131840), named in English George Gist or George Guess, was a Cherokee silversmith. In 1821 he completed his independent creation of a Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible."@en . "Sequoyah"@en . . . . . "1767Z"^^ . "George Guess or Gist"@en .