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The illiterate Cherokee man who invented the alphabet for his language.</h1><p class="sl-art-byline" style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,102,153);font-weight:bold;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
By <a rel="author" href="http://www.slate.com/authors.mike_vuolo_1.html" style="color:rgb(0,102,153);text-decoration:none">Mike Vuolo</a><span class="sl-art-datetime" style="margin:5px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-weight:normal"><span class="sl-art-head-pipe" style="margin:0px 7px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:12px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">|</span>Posted Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012, at 2:39 PM ET</span></p>
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