The Cherokee language is the heart of who we are as a people. This shared mission was at the center of our recent Seventh ...

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 & ...

As technology advances in English, a UC Santa Cruz professor is making sure Indigenous languages don’t get left behind.

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 Nation and Middle-earth are converging in a powerful new project that will give the language of the largest tribe in the United States a new global platform. For more than a year, ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — As the Cherokee Nation celebrates its 70th national holiday this weekend, the Cherokee Nation is trying to preserve Cherokee language and culture. Cherokee Nation’s hosts tribe’s ...

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 ...

This event is open to all Cherokee first language speakers and second language learners to learn about the new language projects and hear songs in Cherokee. “This Speaker Gathering is one of the ...

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Sometimes, it's not the meaning of a song's lyrics that get to you. It's the emotion in the singer's voice. That holds true even if the song is in a language you don't understand. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...

The Cherokee language is the heart of who we are as a people. It carries our history, our way of life, and the values that ...