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 ...

Arneach is learning the language with her granddaughter, and they play language games together at home. Arneach said one important motive for her continued enrollment in language classes is the desire ...

A SPECIAL PLACE: Western Carolina University students who are members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians hold "wi," a symbol in the Cherokee language for "place." Photo courtesy of WCU In ...

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 ...

The Cherokee Phoenix is the official news outlet of the Cherokee Nation. It provides in-depth, community-focused journalism covering government, culture, education, public safety, health, and the ...