Gordon County Historical Society's Board of Directors has voted facilitate an effort to restore a pair of local landmarks.

There are nearly half a million Cherokee people around the world, but less than 0.5% of them speak their language natively, ...

For language learners today, the Cherokee Bible does more than show how the Cherokee interpreted Christian theology; it is a ...

Perhaps even more importantly, the Cherokee Bible offers insight into Cherokee-specific meanings, interpretations of spiritual concepts and a benchmark for understanding how the language has changed.

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 ...

A nation far flung, miles and miles of unpaved roads and a people wary of speaking with outsiders: Two storytellers faced a slew of hurdles when they set out to chronicle the dwindling Cherokee ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation said nearly 200 Cherokee Syllabary keyboards were donated to Cherokee speakers and those learning the Cherokee language. The keyboards allow people to easily ...

THE CHEROKEES: IN WAR AND AT PEACE, 1670-1840" by David Narrett (Belknap/Harvard University Press, 608 pages, $35). "Tennessee" is derived from the Cherokee noun Ta-Nas-Ce, "river with a big bend," ...

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 — ...

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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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE -- Nelson Orr, a Cherokee man who was fatally stabbed near the Fayetteville Square in 1839, will be honored with a historical marker. "This marker represents an acknowledgement of the ...