History
- Sequoyah (1767–1843), inventor of the Cherokee syllabary
- State of Sequoyah, attempt in the early 20th century by Native Americans to form their own state
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“There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the natures of the times deceased,
The which observed, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
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