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A. Farmers demonstrated outside hundreds of Parliament House.

B. Hundreds farmers outside demonstrated of the Parliament House

C. Hundreds of farmers demonstrated outside the Parliament House.

D. Hundreds of farmers outside demonstrated the Parliament House.

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The Roman alphabet took thousands of years to develop, from the picture writing of the ancient Egyptians

through modifications by Phoenicians, Greek, Romans, and others. Yet in just a dozen years, one man, Sequoyah,

invented an alphabet for the Cherokee people. Born in eastern Tennessee, Sequoayah was a hunter and a silversmith in his

youth, as well as an able interpreter who knew Spanish, French and English.

Sequoyah wanted his people to have the secret of the “talking leaves” as he called his books of white people, and

so he set out to design a written form of Cherokee. His chief aim was to record his people’s ancient tribal customs. He

began by designing pictographs for every word in the Cherokee vocabulary. Reputedly his wife, angry with him for his

neglect of garden and house, burned his notes, and he had to start over. This time, having concluded that picture-writing

was cubersome, he made symbols for the sounds of Cherokee language. Eventually he refined his system to eighty-five

characters, which he borrowed from the Roman, Greek, and Hebrew alphabets. He presented this system to the Cherokee

General Council in 1821, and it was wholeheartedly approved. The response was phenomenal. Cherokees who had

struggled for months to learn English lettering school picked up the new sytem in days. Several books were printed in

Cherokee, and in 1828, a newspaper, the

Cherokee Phoenix,

was first published in the new alphabet. Sequoyah was

acclaimed by his people.

In his later life, Sequoyah dedicated himself to the general advancement of his people. He went to Washington,

D.C., as a representtative of the Western tribes. He helped settled bitter differences among Cherokee after their forced

movement by the federal govement to the Oklahoma territory in the 1930s. He died in Mexico in 1843 while searching for

groups of lost Cherokee. A statue of Sequoyah represents Oklahoma in the Statuary Hall in the Capitol building of

Washington. D.C. However, He is probably chiefly rememberd today because sequoias, the giant redwood trees of

California, are named of him.