Severe storms Aug. 17 didn’t dampen the mood for tribal leaders and educators who celebrated the grand opening of School of ...

Guest Opinion Standing inside the recently opened Cherokee Immersion Middle School in Tahlequah, I saw much more than a new ...

If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Landon French is a teacher at New Kituwah Academy Elementary teaching Cherokee, while he has two more students at home: His ...

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...

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 ...

Students use iPad to study the Cherokee language. They write out words and phrases in Notes and record themselves speaking them aloud to practice good pronunciation. In the hallways of the Cherokee ...

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 — ...

There are nearly half a million Cherokee people around the world, but less than 0.5% of them speak their language natively, prompting educators to turn to iPad and Mac to help preserve the language.

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 ...

Standing inside the recently opened Cherokee Immersion Middle School in Tahlequah, I saw much more than a new building.