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 ...

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 ...

WRITTEN WORD: A new exhibit at the Asheville Art Museum, organized in conjunction with the Museum of the Cherokee Indian, features works by Cherokee artists who use the tribe's written language in ...

Editor’s note: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, along with two other federally-recognized tribes of Cherokee people, declared in 2019 a state of emergency for the nation’s language. The United ...

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 ...

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