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 — ...

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addressed the largest gathering of first-language and fluent Cherokee speakers in ...

Students at Duke University will take a field trip to Cherokee, North Carolina as a part of the new language course. For the first time ever this fall, Duke University will offer a new online Cherokee ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. addressed the largest gathering of first-language and fluent Cherokee speakers in ...

MARS HILL - The Cherokee were the first settlers of Madison County and left pictographs on Paint Rock in what is now Hot Springs, some of them detailing the reputed magical powers of the mineral ...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. — A Tennessee Tech University professor is collaborating on an artificial intelligence project aimed at preserving the Cherokee language, according to a press release from the ...

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 ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — We're revisiting the effort to help preserve the Cherokee language. Earlier this year, tribal leaders permanently reauthorized the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act, ...