Legacy and Honors
- Sequoyah's Cabin, where he lived during 1829–1844 in Oklahoma, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965.
- 1939, a bronze panel with a raised figure of Sequoyah, by Lee Lawrie, was erected in his honor at the Library of Congress.
- Addressing the exalted place Sequoyah holds in Cherokee imagination, the ethnographer Jack Kilpatrick wrote: "Sequoyah was always in the wilderness. He walked about, but he was not a hunter. I wonder what he was looking for."
- The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum in Eastern Tennessee features his life and Cherokee culture.
- The United States Postal Service issued a 19¢ stamp in his honor in the Great Americans series.
- The Sequoia trees were named after him.
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