The Cherokee Nation has launched a new Language Hub website for the Cherokee language, along with an audio feature that reads ...

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Standing inside the recently opened Cherokee Immersion Middle School in Tahlequah, I saw much more than a new building. Beyond the ...

Centuries of suppression, removal and dispossession took an enormous toll on our language. Today, the policies of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Landon French is a teacher at New Kituwah Academy Elementary teaching Cherokee, while he has two more students at home: His ...

There are nearly half a million Cherokee people around the world, but less than 0.5% of them speak their language natively, prompting educators to turn to iPad and Mac to help preserve the language.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It’s a language only a few thousand people in the United States know, but the University of Arkansas is hoping to change that by offering students the chance to learn Cherokee.

That's the hope of Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who's counting on more inclusive consumer technology—and the involvement of a major tech company—to help out.

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 ...

The code has been copied to your clipboard. The URL has been copied to your clipboard The Cherokee are a large Native American tribe. Many live in Cherokee Nation, a huge reservation in the state of ...