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Tahlequah is a city in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, United States located at the foot hills of the Ozark Mountains. The population was 14,458 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Cherokee County. The main campus of Northeastern State University is located in the city. It is also the capital of the Cherokee Nation. Tahlequah is also known for being featured in the book Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.

Tahlequah has the distinction of being the capital of both The Cherokee Nation and The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians.

There are several markers of Cherokee and Native American heritage found across town: like street signs and business front signs in the Cherokee language along with English, mostly in the syllabary alphabet created by Sequoyah, a Cherokee scholar in the 1820s to endorse full literacy to his tribe. (Read more...)