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Will Moreau Goins in Chautauqua 2006 as Sequoyah, the creator of the Cherokee syllabary, the means by which anyone speaking the Cherokee language could become literate. Within one year, 98% percent of his nation became literate in their own language, which had never before existed in written form.

Chautauqua is all about communication -- reading, writing and discussion.