After the battle, Ward was thereafter known as Agi-ga-u-e (“Beloved Woman”). As a result, Ward was credited with many things: “Ward again gave warning of a Cherokee uprising in 1780 and attempted to prevent retaliation by militia forces. She made a notable plea for mutual friendship at the negotiation of the Treaty of Hopewell in 1785” (Nancy Ward). Sequoyah was born in a North Carolina colony called Taskigi. He was an accomplished silversmith, and warrior who created the Cherokee writing system. Sequoyah never learned to read or write, but later became passionate about the writing system. He believed that reading and writing would help in transmitting knowledge to others. So he began working on a writing system that would benefit the Cherokee tribe. “He experimented first with pictographs and then with symbols representing the syllables of the spoken Cherokee language, adapting letters from English, Greek, and Hebrew... By 1821 he had created a system of 86 symbols, representing all the syllables of the Cherokee language.” (“Sequoyah”). Sequoyah’s system allows people to learn