All Members Enjoy the Following Benefits:
Free Admission-unlimited visits, 10% Discount in Museum Store, Sequoyah Speaks, Newsletter, Pin or Patch
Annual Membership Levels:
Ayoka – $15 – Student under 18 or college ID
Daughter of Sequoyah and 1st to learn and use the Syllabary.
All benefits above
Tuskegee – Individual – $30 Birthplace and boyhood home of Sequoyah. This town grew along side Fort Loudoun. After the surrender of the fort, Tuskegee continued to thrive.
All Benefits above.
Clans – 2 adults w/children-$50
The 7 Clans formed the foundation of the Cherokee society.
All benefits above. Four one-time passes.
Tanasi – Tennessee – $100 –
First Capital of the Cherokee. The Tanasi town site is located 11 miles from Sequoyah Birthplace Museum.
All benefits above, 2 more one-time passes (total 6) Discount on classes Discount on special events at amphitheater.
Blacksmith – $250
Sequoyah first created a numbering system to keep his accounts for his smithing. It was in his shop that he announced that the Cherokees could create a writing system in their own language which took 12 years to finish.
All the benefits above. 2 more one-time passes. (Total 8). 2 one-time passes to the Museum of the Cherokee People. Copy of Journal of Cherokee Studies. Sponsor banner at all Museum/Amphitheater events.
Wurteh – $500
Sequoyah’s mother of the Paint Clan
All the benefits above. 2 more one-time passes (total 10) 2 copies of publications. 20% discount in Museum Gift Shop. 2 more one-time passes to the Museum of the Cherokee People. (Total 4) Recognition in newsletter.
Chota – $750
The second Capital of the Cherokee nation. Known as the mother town and later became a white town or peace settlement.
All the benefits above. Feature story in newsletter, 4 free passes to all events Museum/ Amphitheater, Guided tour of Museum.
Sequoyah – $1,000
Soldier, Statesman, Silversmith, Blacksmith, Creator of the Cherokee Syllabary.
All the benefits above, Total of 20 one-time passes to museum, 4 copies of publications, 8 passes to the Museum of the Cherokee People, 10 free passes to all events Museum/ Amphitheater.
Syllabary—$5,000
If you speak Cherokee, all you have to do is learn the Syllabary and then you could start sounding out the words and start reading or writing in Cherokee.
All the benefits above,
Talking Leaves – Over $10,000
Sequoyah believed that if you understood the symbols on a page, it would speak to you.
All the benefits above There will be special recognition by museum, Recognized as Life Member
Join Today by calling the Museum at 423-884-6246 or emailing at seqmus@tds.net