Q&A
Filming Winnie Guess Perdue (Sequoyah descendant) and Joshua Nelson as they discuss her lifelong career as a dancer, educator and "Beloved Edler" of the Cherokee Nation.
with the team behind Searching for Sequoyah By Daniel Hautzinger
On Sunday, November 21 at 11:00 am, WTTW airs Searching for Sequoyah, a documentary that explores the legacy and little-known life of Sequoyah, the visionary who created the Cherokee writing system despite being illiterate in any other language.
WTTW spoke to the documentary’s director and producer, James Fortier, who is Ojibway; co-producer and host/narrator Joshua B. Nelson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and professor of English at the University of Oklahoma; and producer and writer LeAnne Howe, a citizen of the Choctaw Nation and professor of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.
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NOVEMBER
2021
