The Cherokee Nation
After the white man came, the Cherokees copied many of their ways. One Cherokee named Sequoyah saw how important reading and writing was to the white man. He decided to invent a way to write down the spoken Cherokee language. He began by making word pictures. For each word he drew a picture. But that proved impossible -there were just too many words. Then he took the 85 sounds that made up the language. Using his own imagination and an English spelling book, Sequoyah invented a sign for each sound. His alphabet proved amazingly easy to learn. Before long, many Cherokees knew how to read and write in their own language. By 1828, they were even printing their own news paper.
Why should they go to a strange land far beyond the Mississippi River?
36. The Cherokee Nation used to live
B. in the southeastern part of the US.
D. in the western territory.
A. writing down the spoken language.
C. teaching his people reading,
38. A law was passed in 1830 to
B. send the army to help the Cherokees.
D. forbid the Cherokees to read their newspaper.
A. they went in carts.
C. they marched on foot,
40. Many Cherokees died on their way to their new home mainly because
B. the government did not provide transportation.
D. the journey was long and boring.