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Sequoyah by Joel David Nunneley in front of the Helmerich Center at the Gilcrease Museum. Royalty Free Stock Photo

`Homeward Bound` by the late Allan Houser on the University of Oklahoma campus in Norman Oklahoma. Royalty Free Stock Photo

Sequoyah by Joel David Nunneley in front of the Helmerich Center at the Gilcrease Museum.

Sunny exterior view of the Helmerich Payne Inc oil well Royalty Free Stock Photo

Pictured is a bronze sculpture of Sequoyah by Joel David Nunneley in front of the Helmerich Center for American Research at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Sequoya, also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath and neographer of the Cherokee Nation. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible.