TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation has secured $1.2 million in federal funds from the Department of Education to provide extensive support to an upcoming cohort of select teachers. The Cherokee ...

This week, Cherokee families can download a new app designed to help them learn, practice and preserve their traditional language. Tribal news outlet Andadisgoi reports that Cherokee leaders and ...

During Thursday’s Seventh Annual First-Language Cherokee Speakers Gathering, Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. directed $2.3 million from the tribe’s Public Health and Wellness Fund Act to support the ...

TAHLEQUAH — 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 ...

The Cherokee Nation will raise the pay for employees who speak or start learning Cherokee, and the Nation will expand home health for elderly native speakers, as part of an increasing effort to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cherokee Nation Leaders gathered with Cherokee voice actors along with Cherokee speakers who dubbed the animated film “How to ...

Ethan Winn is a Cherokee Nation citizen and grew up attending the tribe’s immersion school. He recalled not seeing any mainstream movies or shows in the Cherokee language — tools, he said, could have ...

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 ...

Education advocates are launching a multi-year program to develop a game and to teach the Denaakk’e language in schools. That and another language teaching apps come at a time when almost all federal ...

Research is a dynamic process that takes many forms. Sometimes, to ask the right questions and gain nuanced understandings, immersion in a topic is necessary. It’s a lesson that Buck Woodard, ...

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 — ...