This is an example of Sequoyah's Cherokee Alphabet.
Since I'm in the middle of day shifts, I can't ride anywhere so I'm using my archives for the blog. Just informational in case you've ridden by here and never stopped to read the signs.
This is the infamous Dwight Mission...Park? Historical Spot? uhh, how about boat launching area for the Game and Fish Commission?
At one time under these two bridges ran the Illinois Bayou. As a small boy I fished here with my Grandfather and my Father brought us here to play on the vines. The Bayou ran North to South and there was a trail that ran between the Bayou and the hill that Dwight Mission was on.
Alot of the land in the area of the causeway across the lake was stripmining land. The lake was a good thing for the area, kind of a land reclamation. I remember there also being some good bottom land here, with good squirrel hunting. What was'nt stripmined was bulldozed.
The Dwight Mission Sign has been allowed to get rusty, I think the Historical Society has forgotten about it. Not too many years ago someone, I guess the Highway Department put up the Cherokee Crossing signs at the West and East end of the causeway. They are in English and Cherokee.
Last month (Aug. 16)I had a few pictures of Sequoyahs salt kettle, which is in Dover. He's the Cherokee that invented the Cherokee Alphabet while living near Scottsville, Ar. and now here is an example of the Cherokee written language on this sign. It actually took Sequoyah twelve years to finish his alphabet. The wait was well worth it, other Indian tribes also used it.
Sequoyah, who was known by the white man as George Gist (or Guest) was actually half white. His father left the family when Sequoyah was young and Sequoyah never learned to speak English. Before moving to Scottsville in 1821, he lived in Galla Rock, which is where he and other Cherokee were relocated from Georgia in 1817. Galla Rock is Near Sweeden Island Park, South of Atkins, Ar. Most Cherokee did'nt move west in this move. It was'nt until the "trail of tears" between 1834-1839 that they were reunited with the rest of the Cherokee. Approximately 30,000 Cherokee moved West through Arkansas on their way to Oklahoma.
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