Sequoyah's Secret Traditional Cache
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the cache is hidden at Sequoyah Caverns off of the Squyah Trail, the cache is a medicine bottle with a log book.
This cache is hidden off of the Sequoyah Trail at Sequoyah Caverns. The sequoyah trail is located near the backside of the camp-ground. The terrain is moderate to rough but the trail is clear and it is only a few hundred yards down the trail. The cache is a Micro-Cache, a medicine bottle with a log book inside. You will need your own pen. This place is a nice park so don't forget to bring your camera and tour the cave.
The Story of Sequoyah
(1770 - 1843)
Sequoyah is celebrated as an illiterate Indian genius who, solely frrom the resources of his mind, endowed a whole tribe with learning; the only man in history to conceive and perfect in its entirety an alphabet or syllabary.
Sequoyah was born in the Overhill town of Tuskegee in Tennessee to a Cherokee mother and a German father. As a young warrior he fought beside Sam Houston and Andrew Jackson against the hostile Creek Indians in the battle of Horseshoe Bend in the War of 1812. In the early 1820's he moved from the Overhills to the big Cherokee town of Willstown in northern Alabama, just south of Sequoyah Caverns.
It was while living at Willstown that he finished the alphabet on which he had labored for 12 long years. Within a few months almost all the Cherokee Nation could read and write. In honor of this great contribution the giant Sequoia trees and Sequoia National Park in California were named after him.
In 1838 he walked with his people on the infamous Trail of Tears, when the Cherokee were removed forcefully to Oklahoma. In 1843 he traveled to Mexico and while on this trip he became ill and died. Sequoyah's memory will last forever through his syllabary and through this learning and culture of a fine body of Americans, the Cherokee people.
Don't forget to bring your own pen and to replace the cache exactly how you found it.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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