Museum Guide Number Page 1 Guide Map 2 List of Figures 3-4 1 The Museum 5-6 2 Cherokee Mythology 9-11 A - Origin of the Earth and Forming of the Mountains B - Origin of Disease and Medicine C - Division of Plants and Animals and Origin of the Milky Way 3 Arrival of Humans in the New World 12 4 Archaeology 13-15 5 Search for the Past: The Tellico Archaeological Project 16 6 Paleo-Indian Period 17 7 Archaic Period 18 8 Woodland Period 19 9 Mississippian Period 20-22 10 Mound Excavation 23 11 Mississippian - Protohistoric phase 23-25 12 Cherokee Dawn 25 13 18th Century Cherokee 26-29 14 Deerskin Economy 30-31 15 18th Century Cherokee 32-34 16 Cherokee Zenith 35 17 Federal Period 1794-1819 35-36 18 Sequoyah 37-38 19 Sounds of the Cherokee Syllabary 38 20 Cherokee Syllabary 38 21 Uses of the Syllabary 39 22 Sequoyah - An American Genius 40-48 23 Sequoyah Diorama 24 Removal 49-50 25 Principals in the Cherokee Removal 52-55 26 Eastern Cherokee Today 27 The Cherokee Memorial 56 Suggested Readings about Sequoyah 62 References 63-64