Sequoyah

Hand-colored lithograph depicting Cherokee leader Sequoyah, who lived in Western Arkansas from 1824 to 1828, holding a copy of the Cherokee syllabary he developed; by F.W. Greenough, circa 1836.

Native American man in a turban with a pipe holding a tablet with letters on it

Courtesy of the Library of Congress

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