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>By that metric Native Americans are basically animals..

The Cherokee had an extremely well developed written tradition, so I don't think that inference would follow at all.

From the early 1800's, created by a single person.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_syllabary

Awesome. A truly impressive feat that, among all the various and sundry species populating the earth, is only achievable by a human. That is exactly my point... thank you! :)

But also not a part of the human experience among all the ancestors of the Cherokee people, or more or less all humans in the Americas, all the way back to whenever humans first arrived in the Americas (likely 25k-30k years ago, at least).

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