State Highway 101 beginning at State Highway 59 and extending to the intersection of State Highway 101 and State Highway 64B shall be designated the "Sequoyah Memorial Highway" as a lasting memorial to the great Cherokee genius who gave an entire nation a written language with his invention of the Cherokee Syllabary that was adopted by his tribe in 1821. The Oklahoma Department of Transportation shall cause suitable permanent markers to be placed upon the highway bearing said name.
Okla. Stat. tit. 69, § 1621