Sequoyah (aka George Gist), the Cherokee silversmith…

Sequoyah (aka George Gist), the Cherokee silversmith who has invented the Cherokee syllabary, founds the Cherokee language newspaper, the Cherokee Phoenix.

The first newspaper published by Native Americans in the United States and the first published in a Native American language, it prints its first issue in English and Cherokee on February 21, 1828, in New Echota, capital of the Cherokee Nation (present-day Georgia).

The paper will continue until 1834.

Sequoyah journeys to Washington, D.C., in this year, as part of a delegation to negotiate a treaty for land in Oklahoma.