Dear Self,
I have created a Cherokee alphabet. The alphabet consists of 86 characters that represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. My people can learn the alphabet in one day and learn to read in one week (Pg. 26). Which is much more efficient than the Protestant’s language of English taking years to learn how to read. My language was a valuable resource for my people because soon Cherokee’s all over began to learn how to read and write. Letters were being sent from the Cherokee’s in the East all the way to other Cherokee’s located in Arkansas (Pg. 26). My new alphabet has also united the Cherokee culture because we can now record our religious songs (Pg. 26). A white man named Elias Boudinot was rather impressed with the language and decided to request funds from the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia to create a printing press to publish a newspaper in English and Cherokee (Pg. 26). Boudinot published the first Native American newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix in February of 1828 (Pg. 26). However, the Protestant missionaries want to strip us of our culture because they fear if we become literate in our own language, we will never learn English, and never adopt the Protestant cultures (Pg. 27).
I have created a Cherokee alphabet. The alphabet consists of 86 characters that represent the sounds of the Cherokee language. My people can learn the alphabet in one day and learn to read in one week (Pg. 26). Which is much more efficient than the Protestant’s language of English taking years to learn how to read. My language was a valuable resource for my people because soon Cherokee’s all over began to learn how to read and write. Letters were being sent from the Cherokee’s in the East all the way to other Cherokee’s located in Arkansas (Pg. 26). My new alphabet has also united the Cherokee culture because we can now record our religious songs (Pg. 26). A white man named Elias Boudinot was rather impressed with the language and decided to request funds from the First Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia to create a printing press to publish a newspaper in English and Cherokee (Pg. 26). Boudinot published the first Native American newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix in February of 1828 (Pg. 26). However, the Protestant missionaries want to strip us of our culture because they fear if we become literate in our own language, we will never learn English, and never adopt the Protestant cultures (Pg. 27).
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