VONORE, Tenn. (WATE) — The Cherokee Nation announced it is honoring the man who gave the Cherokee people their own written language by declaring Oct. 15 as “Sequoyah Day.” The principal chief of the ...

Let’s take you back in time to the early 1800s and tell you the story of the Cherokee man who could not read or write. Yet he ...

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the ...

Manitou Cave in Fort Payne, Ala., is safe for now. The Cherokee writing on its walls that dates to the Trail of Tears is secure and has been written about in academic journals. The tiny bats and ...

A man the Cherokee Nation calls the “most influential Linguist since Sequoyah,” will be laid to rest on Tuesday. Dr. Durbin Feeling passed away last week at the age of 74. He is remembered for his ...

Hidden deep beneath the rugged landscapes of Alabama, an exquisite discovery has unraveled a deep connection between the past and present. Inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, a series of stellar yet ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. (AP) -- Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have collaborated to interpret tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave near Fort Payne are ...

Shortly before being forced out of their homeland in the 1830s, Cherokee people of the southeastern United States left written accounts on cave walls of secretive rituals. Now researchers have ...