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The medal was made at Washington and of silver, to the value of Twenty Dollars. One side was thus inscribed: Presented to George Gist by the General Council of the Cherokee Nation, for his ingenuity in The Invention of the Cherokee Alphabet: 1825. Under the inscription were two pipes crossed; and an abridgement of the above on the reverse of the medal, encircled a head meant to represent George Gist himself. Gist still resides in Arkansas and the last that was heard of him, he had adapted his alphabet to the language of another of the Indian nations who are removed thither, the Choctaws, to whom he was teaching the use of it, with triumphant success.