Turtle Island Arts

An acting teacher's day goes miserably as he anxiously awaits an answer for his audition.

Searching for Sequoyah spans two countries and three Cherokee nations and details Sequoyah's life and mysterious death. Chronicling his travels from east to west, the program recounts his final journey to Mexico where the aging Cherokee man hoped to reunite the "Mexican Cherokee" with the Cherokee nation after their removal to Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma.