Guest Opinion. Four years ago, the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act launched Cherokee Nation on a historic journey to preserving and perpetuating the Cherokee language. Language has always ...
The Cherokee Nation held its seventh annual First-Language Cherokee Speakers Gathering Oct. 23 at the Chota Center to honor Cherokee language speakers and celebrate the tribe’s recent advances ...
The Cherokee language is the heart of who we are as a people. This shared mission was at the center of our recent Seventh ...
In the spring of 2021, Motorola added support for two Indigenous languages spoken in Latin America as part of a push to make its products more inclusive and accessible. Now, any Motorola phone running ...
CHEROKEE, North Carolina (WLOS) — So few people speak Cherokee now, the language is considered endangered. But there are ongoing efforts to keep it alive. The latest endeavor involves technology most ...
Cherokee has become the first Native American language fully integrated into Gmail. The Cherokee Nation worked with Gmail to make this announcement a reality. "We are constantly trying to find ways to ...
By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won't be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure. But it might be a step toward ...
Cherokee Nation’s tribal complex in Tahlequah that's intended to host a centralized language center. (Source: Cherokee Nation facebook) The Cherokee Nation has for decades actively worked to increase ...
The Cherokee Nation is set to open the historic Durbin Feeling Language Center this week, the Cherokee Nation announced. The Durbin Feeling Language Center will house all the tribe's language programs ...
In a historic cultural initiative, the Cherokee Nation has teamed up with DreamWorks Animation and NBCUniversal to produce a Cherokee-language version of the animated film How to Train Your Dragon.
Even before the pandemic hit, the Cherokee Nation was dealing with a crisis: the potential disappearance of its native language. Only about 2,000 people can speak the Cherokee language fluently. And ...