Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr says he's hoping to make a permanent investment in making sure the language is preserved. First-language speakers are Cherokee citizens who have been speaking Cherokee since they ...

In a historic cultural initiative, the Cherokee Nation has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal to produce a ...

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 ...

Jan 26, 2024 Jan 26, 2024 Updated Jan 27, 2024 0 The Cherokee Nation is going viral with some of its most recent efforts to keep the Cherokee language alive and revitalize its language education ...

Guest Opinion. The language that our ancestors spoke to pass along Cherokee wisdom through countless generations; that the unique Cherokee genius Sequoyah created a syllabary for; that Cherokee hero ...

TAJLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation announced a grant worth up to $900,000 over the next three years from the United States Department of the Interior to help boost Cherokee language efforts. The ...

The famous animated 2010 film, How to Train Your Dragon, is now streaming on Peacock in the Cherokee language.

Thirteen years ago, in an unguarded moment on her first day of kindergarten, Emilee Chavez spoke a single word of English. And a classmate immediately ran to tell the teacher. “Hey,” the teacher ...

Language expert Tom Belt translates some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians archaeologist Beau Carroll and Cherokee Nation citizen and historian Julie Reed ...

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 ...