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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addressed the largest gathering of first-language and fluent Cherokee speakers in ...

Leaders of the tribe held a ceremony on Jan. 24 to celebrate the reauthorization of the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act at the Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah. The Language Center ...

National conference highlighted a year of instruction and networking for new language program This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Cherokee language being adopted by the Cherokee Nation that — ...

A SPECIAL PLACE: Western Carolina University students who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hold "wi," a symbol in the Cherokee language for "place." Photo courtesy of WCU In ...

Even before the pandemic hit, the Cherokee Nation was dealing with a crisis: the potential disappearance of its native language. Only about 2,000 people can speak the Cherokee language fluently. And ...

Dr. Hartwell Francis reads from a hand-printed Cherokee language book made in partnership with Western Carolina University. (Photo by Anya Petrone Slepyan/The Daily Yonder) At the entrance to the New ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (KFOR) – Durbin Feeling, renowned for being the single-largest contributor to the Cherokee language since Sequoyah, has died at age 74. Feeling, who was born on April 2, 1946, just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sequoyah's invention of a Cherokee syllabary helped translate the Bible soon after missionaries' arrival. Wesley Fryer/Cherokee ...