April 8, 2020

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Maria Sequichie McIntosh Portrait

Maria Sequichie McIntosh (Wa lee yah)

The Life of Maria Sequichie Wa lee yah, also known as Maria Sequichie, was born to Charles and Martha Sequichie/Aquicha (Cummings) in the Saline District of the Cherokee Nation (current-day Oklahoma) in 1866. She was the granddaughter of Jennie Powell Sequichie who came to the Cherokee Nation on the Trail of Tears. Maria attended school at the Cherokee Female Seminary in Tahlequah, one of the first women’s boarding schools west of the Mississippi and then went on to Bacone University....