In 2021, Francis was admitted as an honorary member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian for “his work in preserving the Cherokee language”, after “a decade getting to know the speakers and working ...

Cherokee Nation leaders and Cherokee language speakers joined representatives from Kiwa Digital Ltd. on Tuesday to launch the new Cherokee Language Dictionary app during an event at the Durbin Feeling ...

Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer a new Cherokee language course series. (Photo/Courtesy) For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & ...

Guest Opinion. In today’s age, when technology can often leave us feeling disconnected from our cultural roots, Cherokee ...

TULSA, Okla. — Two Oklahoma-based tribal nations are not just honoring their history, but making history in pop culture through dubbing native languages in prominent streaming shows. “We were wanting ...

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 ...

Many Indigenous languages are at risk of dying out after centuries of forced assimilation. A cohort of administrators at Kansas City Public Schools and members of the KC Indian Center are trying to ...

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 ...

SAVING TSALAGI: Songwriter Kalyn Fay (Cherokee Nation, Muscogee Creek), who performs on the album Anvdvnelisgi (ᎠᏅᏛᏁᎵᏍᎩ), will perform at The Way We Speak with the World on Aug. 5. Photo courtesy of ...

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 ...

After debuting in fall 2023, the Cherokee language program at Yale is seeking to expand its course offerings. As the University’s first and only Indigenous language track for credit, the Cherokee ...