Sequoyah's Cabin Museum
National Historic Landmark; Sequoyah'S 1829 Cabin, Run By The Cherokee Nation Since 2016 · Sallisaw, Oklahoma
The 1829 log cabin built by Sequoyah, the Cherokee silversmith and soldier who created the Cherokee syllabary, on the land he took after removal to Indian Territory, ten miles north-east of Sallisaw. Sequoyah spent about twelve years working out a written form for a language that had none, finished around 1821, and within a few years thousands of Cherokee could read and write it; the Cherokee Phoenix newspaper followed in 1828. The one-room cabin stands inside a stone shelter built by the Works Progress Administration in 1936, with a museum around it holding his tools, syllabary charts and the story of Cherokee literacy. The site sits in a ten-acre park, is on the National Register, was named a National Literary Landmark in 2006, and has been run by the Cherokee Nation since it bought the site from the state in November 2016. Admission is free, Tuesday to Saturday. Trails and a nature area surround it.
470288 State Highway 101, Sallisaw, Oklahoma, 74955, United States
Tuesday-Saturday 10 AM-4 PM, closed Sunday and Monday; admission free (check visitcherokeenation.com or call 877-779-6977).
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