Cherokee storyteller and culture keeper Larry Shade presented the final in a series of “Stories on the Square,” sharing the ...

Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction. A language might die out when a small territory is forced to integrate with a ruling ...

Cherokee has been one of a number of endangered Native American languages to see a renaissance in recent history. A group of University of Kansas researchers has co-authored a study demonstrating that ...

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 ...

Guest Opinion Summer has always been a season of growth, learning and opportunity. Across the Cherokee Nation, hundreds of ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation will be providing education on various aspects of Cherokee history and culture during their spring "Lunch and Learn" lecture series at the NSU Jazz Lab. "This is ...

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...

CHEROKEE - The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will offer five days of immersive workshops, programs and field trips this summer, covering Cherokee archaeology, anthropology, history, folklore, ...

"I speak a little Cherokee." It's intimidating introducing yourself to a roomful of strangers with words that seem to bunch up in your mouth, rather than trip off your tongue, but everyone was game.

The pandemic has hit Native American communities hard. Among those affected are speakers of the endangered Cherokee language. Edna Raper was a fluent Cherokee speaker. She died of COVID-19 at age 67.

Introduction : where do you start? -- Learn from all i observe -- Leadership : the ability to go from point A to point B -- Point B : where you want to go -- Point A : where you are? : never in our ...

Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system​: Initially met with suspicion and accusations of witchcraft, Sequoyah's revolutionary ...