Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write ...

Cherokee Nation citizens met today for a gathering to celebrate the Cherokee language. Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr says he’s hoping to make a permanent investment in making sure the language is preserved.

Guest Opinion. Four years ago, the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act launched Cherokee Nation on a historic journey to preserving and perpetuating the Cherokee language. Language has always ...

Arneach is learning the language with her granddaughter, and they play language games together at home. Arneach said one important motive for her continued enrollment in language classes is the desire ...

The Cherokee Nation said nearly 200 Cherokee Syllabary keyboards were donated to Cherokee speakers and those learning the ...

This event is open to all Cherokee first language speakers and second language learners to learn about the new language projects and hear songs in Cherokee. “This Speaker Gathering is one of the ...

TAHLEQUAH — Clifford Bark, a fluent Cherokee-language speaker, was one of a handful of second grade students who didn’t know English and couldn’t copy the English words that the teacher wrote on the ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer an Indigenous United States language — Cherokee. The new course recognizes the intertwined history of ...