State of Sequoyah

State of Sequoyah
Proposed seal
Proposed State of Sequoyah
Constitutional convention:	August 21, 1905
Convention President:	Pleasant Porter
Vice President(s)	William C. Rogers, Cherokee William H. Murray, Chickasaw Green McCurtain, Choctaw John Brown, Seminole Charles N. Haskell, Creek
Statehood
Approved 1905 by referendum. Denied by United States Congress. Annexed to the State of Oklahoma in 1907.

The State of Sequoyah was a proposed state to be established from the Indian Territory in the eastern part of present-day Oklahoma. In 1905, with the end of tribal governments looming (as prescribed by the Curtis Act of 1898),^[1] Native Americans of the Five Civilized Tribes—the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek (Muscogee), and Seminole—in Indian Territory proposed to create a state as a means to retain control of their lands. Their intention was to have a state under Native American constitution and governance.^[2] The proposed state was to be named in honor of Sequoyah, the Cherokee who created a writing system in 1825 for the Cherokee language.