A nation far flung, miles and miles of unpaved roads and a people wary of speaking with outsiders: Two storytellers faced a slew of hurdles when they set out to chronicle the dwindling 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 ...

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 ...

Editor’s note: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, along with two other federally-recognized tribes of Cherokee people, declared in 2019 a state of emergency for the nation’s language. The United ...

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 — ...

Why is it so easy to hear individual words in your native language, but in a foreign language they run together in one long stream of sound? Researchers from UC San Francisco have begun to answer that ...

Cherokee Nation Leaders gathered with Cherokee voice actors along with Cherokee speakers who dubbed the animated film “How to Train Your Dragon” in the Cherokee language. (Photo/Cherokee Nation) In a ...