Now the strongest weapon of the Western Cherokee people; More than likely, created to serve as both, a security measure against treaty frauds and the distinguishing from those who could speak the Cherokee language from those who could not ,( many of

Now the strongest weapon of the Western Cherokee people; More than likely, created to serve as both, a security measure against treaty frauds and the distinguishing from those who could speak the Cherokee language from those who could not ,( many of whom were members of the constitutional party in the Eastern Cherokee nation). Their alphabet was put to good use, in The first two cordial refusals: Council Room Williamson’s Hotel March 29^th1828

The Undersigned have had the honor to receive the note addressed to them by the secretary of war on the 27^th instant, and are gratified with the assurance given in the willingness of the government to full fill the treaty existing between it and the Cherokee’s west of the Mississippi. Having been specifically instructed to endeavor, in the first place to obtain such fulfillment, the undersigned do not for the present, feel inclined to enter into any new arraignment upon the basis proposed in the note.-they would beg leave to avail themselves of the occasion to express to the secretary of war their great anxiety to bring their business to a close as soon as practicable, that they may return to their homes.” ³⁰ Signed: George Guess Sequoyah in Cherokee ,

Thomas Maw & in Cherokee

,John Looney & in Cherokee

George Marvis & in Cherokee

Black Fx and

Thomas Graves (in English only.)