The Cherokee Nation is expanding a program that focuses on preserving the tribe’s native language. In the past, only about four people have graduated a year from the program, but now they are ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation's Cherokee Language Master/Apprentice Program graduated 8 students during a special commencement at the Chota Center. Erlinda Soap (ᏓᎦᏏ), of Lyons Switch; Jarren ...

Press release from UNC Asheville: The Center for Native Health, UNC Asheville, the Ray Kinsland Leadership Institute (RKLI), and Tsali Care are partnering to develop ᎠᏏᎾᏏ ᏃᎴ ᎠᏙᎴᏆᏍᎩ “asinasi nole ...

TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma – The nation's largest Indigenous tribe, with more than 430,000 citizens, is stepping up efforts to preserve its native language, with immersion schools and programs designed to ...

The University of Tulsa is renewing its efforts to help preserve the Cherokee language. This is one of several efforts underway to teach more people the language, which is considered to be extremely ...

Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write ...

Cherokee Nation’s tribal complex in Tahlequah that's intended to host a centralized language center. (Source: Cherokee Nation facebook) The Cherokee Nation has for decades actively worked to increase ...

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 ...

TAJLEQUAH, Okla. — The Cherokee Nation announced a grant worth up to $900,000 over the next three years from the United States Department of the Interior to help boost Cherokee language efforts. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (KFOR) – A local tribal ...