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SEPON SEQU O Y A 



[b. a. e. 



Sepon. See Siipawn. 



Sepori. A former Pima settlement in 

 Arizona, s. of Gila r. , probal)ly near the 

 Sonora boundary. It contained 80 fam- 

 ilies in 1871. 



Sepori.— Kudo Ensayo (ca. 1763), 162, 1863. So- 

 pori,— Ibid., 193. Topony.— Ind. Aff. Rep. 1871, 

 365, 1872 (misprint). 



Seppock. See Shoe-pack. 



Sequallisere. See Sequareesere. 



Sequan. A small Diegueno band in 

 Sweetwater canyon, 20 m. from San Diego, 

 s. Cal.; pop. 50"in 1888, 35 in 1891. The 

 name is now given to a reservation of 640 

 acres, largely of non-arable land, 110 m. 

 from Mission Tule River Agency, with 

 34 people in 1909. 



Saquan.— H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th Cong, 8d sess., 

 133, 1857. Sequan.— Jackson and Kinney, Rep. 

 Mis.sion Inds., 28, 1883. Sycuan.— Ind. Aff. Rep., 

 n, 72, 1891. Syquan.— Ibid., 1902, 175, 1903. 



Sequareesa, Sequaresere. See Saghwa- 

 reesa. 



Sequareesere. An Onondaga chief who 

 joined in a message to Pennsylvania in 

 1753, was at a treaty in Montreal in 1756, 

 and a council at Ft Johnson, N. Y., in 

 1757. In Aug. 1759 he was mentioned 

 at Oswego as old Saquerisera, an Onon- 

 daga sachem. He signed the treaty nego- 

 tiated at Ft Stanwix in 1768, and his 

 name appears in Weiser's list, under the 

 form Achseyquarresery, of those in au- 

 thority in 1752 (Minutes Prov. Coun. Pa., 

 v, 686, 1852-56). In 1750 Cammerhoff 

 called him Sequallisere. Cf. Sag]i)V((7-eesa, 

 Sakarism. (w. m. b.) 



Sequidongquee. A famous Seneca chief 

 of the period of the American Revolution, 

 called also Little Beard, and living at 

 Little Beard's town, now Cuylerville, 

 Livingston co., N. Y. His successor in- 

 herited both names, and the two can not 

 alwavs be distinguished. Their names 

 appear on the treaties of 1790, 1797, 1815, 

 and 1826, in various forms, as Shecanach- 

 weschegue, Saheoquiaudonqui, Sigwiiah- 

 sohgwih, Checanadughtwo, etc. The In- 

 dian name may belong to the later chief 

 alone, who is described as having been be- 

 low the medium height, and a fluent 

 speaker. (w. m. b. ) 



Sequim. A Clallam village on Squim 

 bay or Port Washington, n. w. Wash. In 

 1887 Eells stated that there were about 

 40 Indians there, mostly old people. 



Ft Queen.— Stevens in Ind. Aff. Rep., 450, 1854. 

 Sequim.— Eells in Smithson. Rep., 608. 1887. 

 Shkwin.— Gibbs, Clallam and Lummi, 20, 1863. 

 Squim bay, —Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 429, 1855. 

 Squinbay.— Stevens, op. cit. St-ftueen,- Gibbs in 

 Pac. R. R. Rep., I, 429, 1855. Swimmish.— Elder in 

 Ind. Aff. Rep. 1867, 37. 1868. Tch-queen.— U. S. 

 Ind. Treaties, 800, 1873. Washington harbor. — 

 Gibbs in Pac. R. R. Rep., i, 429, 1856. 



Sequoia. The big tree ( Sequoia gigantea ) 

 or the redwood (N. aemperrirens) of Cali- 

 fornia: from Sequoga (q. v. ), the inventor 

 of the Cherokee alphabet, whose name in 

 the Cherokee language is Sikwdyi. From 



the needles of the sequoia is distilled "se- 

 quoiene". (a. f. c. ) 



Sequoya. Inventor of the Cherokee 

 alphabet, born in the Cherokee town of 

 Taskigi, Tenn., about 1760; died near 

 San Fernando, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in 

 Aug. 1843. He was the son of a white 

 man and a Cherokee woman of mixed 

 blood, daughter of a chief in Echota. 

 Besides his native name of Sikwayi, or 

 Sequoya, he was known as George Gist, 

 otherwise spelled Gue.st or Guess, the 

 patronymic of his father, generally be- 

 lieved to have been a German trader. 

 He has also been claimed as the son of 

 Nathaniel Gist of Revolutionary note. 

 Sequoya grew up in the tribe, quite un- 

 acquainted with English or civilized arts, 

 becoming a hunter and trader in furs. 

 He was also a craftsman in silverwork, 

 an ingenious natural mechanic, and his 



inventive powers had scope for develop- 

 ment in consequence of an accident that 

 l)efe]l him in hunting and rendered him 

 a cripple for life. The importance of the 

 arts of wi'iting and printing as instru- 

 ments and weapons of civilization began 

 to impress him in 1809, and he studied, 

 undismayed l>y the discouragement and 

 ridicule of his fellows, to elaborate a sys- 

 tem of writing suitable to the Cherokee 

 language. In 1821 he sulimitted his syl- 

 labary to the chief men of the nation, and 

 on their approval the Cherokee of all 

 ages set about to learn it with such zeal 

 that after a few months thousands were 

 able to read and write their language. 

 Sequoya, in 1822, visited Arkansas to in- 

 troduce writing in the Western division 

 of the Cherokee, among whom he took 



