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Six years after finishing the syllabary, Sequoyah and another man decided to start a newspaper together.  On February 21, 1828, the first Cherokee syllabary newspaper was published.  They named it 'The Cherokee Phoenix'.  After the Trail of Tears occurred in 1838-1839, the newspaper was no longer published.  Sequoyah and his partner were split up, and since all the Cherokee were spread out, there was no one to read it.