Sequoyah comes to Oologah

By Joy Hampton
CLAREMORE PROGRESS (CLAREMORE, Okla.)

Fri, May 16 2008

— Native American artist Ed Rackleff of Claremore and welder John Baden of Oologah are working to finish a 12-year project honoring a Native American icon. Rackleff and Baden are nearing completion of a larger-than-life bronze statue of Chief Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. The finished statue will be unveiled May 17 at the Pocahontas Picnic at Will Rogers Ranch in Oologah.