WHAT -- Candessa Tehee, Cherokee Nation Tribal councilor and professor at Northeastern State University, will be lead a Cherokee Language Workshop that includes an overview of the language's history, ...
By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won’t be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure. But it might be a step toward ...
Duke University introduced a new language class this fall semester: Cherokee. The course is part of Duke’s Native American Studies Initiative, which aims to raise the visibility of Indigenous ...
Like many other indigenous languages, the Cherokee language has lost native speakers over the years. However, on Dec. 3, language preservation efforts got a boost from who else but the U.S. Department ...
In a historic cultural initiative, the Cherokee Nation has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal to produce a ...
The Cherokee Nation and Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians are gathering to preserve and protect the language, culture, and history of the tribe. Groups gathered in Cherokee, North Carolina to sign a ...
“Beginning Cherokee I” is in its first semester, making the course Yale’s first and only Indigenous language course that students can take to count toward their Yale College language requirement.
Each second Monday of October is recognized across the nation as Indigenous Peoples Day, a day to celebrate the Indigenous ...
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — First Lady Jill Biden and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland are set to visit Oklahoma on Friday afternoon. Both women will travel to Tahlequah and tour the Cherokee ...
“So my parents and myself, we’re products of that.” said Tiger, a Cherokee language teacher at Cherokee Central School. Tiger said although most families do have first-language speakers of tribal ...
In the spring of 2021, Motorola added support for two Indigenous languages spoken in Latin America as part of a push to make its products more inclusive and accessible. Now, any Motorola phone running ...