Barbara Duncan and John Standingdeer have developed a method for teaching the Cherokee language that they hope will make it easier for more people to learn it. Photo: Susannah Kay for The Wall ...

For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer an Indigenous United States language — Cherokee. The new course recognizes the intertwined history of ...

As of this week, fewer than 2,000 Americans remain who can read, write, and/or speak the native Cherokee language — words and ...

Sequoyah’s work was interrupted by the War of 1812.The Cherokee people were recruited to fight on the side of the United ...

An original feature-length film titled “The Savior” by Geolink Nations is seeking fluent and second-language learning ...

Santa Fe-based artist Rebecca Lee Kunz has won the Caldecott Medal, widely considered the highest award a children's book illustrator can receive. "Chooch Helped," written by Andrea L. Rogers, was the ...

Here, his granddaughter tells the museum about his life and the Cherokee language prayer card he carried as a soldier in Europe, then as a combat engineer in the Philippines. We’re especially ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Cherokee Nation and the U.S. Department of the Interior partnered to help preserve and advance Native languages. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a ...

Cherokee Nation, on Feb. 21 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will host a day celebrating Cherokee journalism and printing.

Tahlequah is the capital city of the Cherokee Nation, and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians holds a 76-acre complex in the city. Both tribes arrived in Oklahoma via ...