Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — Naming the Redwood Tree [ARTICLE]

Naming the Redwood Tree

The giant redwood tree, which now grows only In California, Is called the sequoia—and this Is the reason why: In the very long ago there once lived a Cherokee Indian named Seqno Yah, who invented an Indian alphabet. He 'not only Invented it, but he taught it to the other Cherokeea by writing It out on leaves, and this peculiar form of literature was In general use In that tribe long before the white man knew of it. In 1828 the missionaries adopted it, and utilized it in a magazine which they published for the red men. Seqno Yah was banished from Alabama with the other members of his tribe, and settled In New Mexico, where he died In 1843. In 1848, when Endlicher was preparing his synopsis of the cone-bearing trees, he heard of the Indian literary prniim, Seqno Yah, and decided to dedicats to his memory the great redwood tree of California. Thus he called It sequoia. A pecularity about this tree Is that In former years it was found all over the world, but now grows only in California. —The Popular Magazine. White pine and yellow pine are the woods most used tor bores.

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