As of this week, fewer than 2,000 Americans remain who can read, write, and/or speak the native Cherokee language — words and ...

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 ...

Here, his granddaughter tells the museum about his life and the Cherokee language prayer card he carried as a soldier in Europe, then as a combat engineer in the Philippines. We’re especially ...

Barbara Duncan and John Standingdeer have developed a method for teaching the Cherokee language that they hope will make it easier for more people to learn it. Photo: Susannah Kay for The Wall ...

Sequoyah’s work was interrupted by the War of 1812.The Cherokee people were recruited to fight on the side of the United ...

“That really negatively affects our language courses and could even possibly affect faculty jobs,” Cherokee Nation citizen and OU undergraduate student Reagan Hargis said. The ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation and the U.S. Department of the Interior partnered to help preserve and advance Native languages. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a ...

Cherokee Nation, on Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will host a day celebrating Cherokee journalism and printing.