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FEBRUARY 21
Europeans have had the printed word for centuries and brought it with them when they discovered and settled the New World. The Cherokee Indians had no written language. In the early 1800s, a Cherokee half-breed became fascinated with the white-man’s “talking leaves” (books) and in 1809, began working on something similar for his people. By 1821, the Cherokee 86-letter alphabet was finished and could be learned in a week. On February 21, 1828, the first printing press in Cherokee was delivered to New Echota, Georgia. The Cherokee Phoenix, the first Indian language newspaper, was on the streets in months.
QUIZ
Who was young man who invented the Cherokee alphabet?
Yesterday’s Quiz
Q. The Soviets were the first to put a man in space on April 12, 1961, but in what year did the Space Race really begin between the Soviet Union and the United States?
A. In 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 on October 4.
Response to kendrakeith88: Your sources appear to agree with my sources. Do you know how long it took the US to establish NASA after Sputnik 1?
Historically Yours, originally a weekly column about the American Civil War, will now cover anything American from 1492 to present day, through this blog.
