Guest Opinion Standing inside the recently opened Cherokee Immersion Middle School in Tahlequah, I saw much more than a new ...

Cherokee has been one of a number of endangered Native American languages to see a renaissance in recent history. A group of University of Kansas researchers has co-authored a study demonstrating that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 13—Eight students in a classroom repeated Cherokee phrases when teacher Victor Wildcat spoke them Monday morning. About 13 ...

Cherokee is spoken as a first language by fewer than 5,000 people, yet in recent years it has experienced a remarkable revival as a second language. But what happens when entire generations may have ...

Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction. A language might die out when a small territory is forced to integrate with a ruling ...

"I speak a little Cherokee." It's intimidating introducing yourself to a roomful of strangers with words that seem to bunch up in your mouth, rather than trip off your tongue, but everyone was game.

Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio ...

Rogers State University Public TV debuted the first televised Cherokee language learning course. The course consists of 48 episodes and each is about 50 minutes long. "Teaming up with Rogers State ...

The Cherokee Nation is set to host a series of free lunch and learn sessions in Tahlequah this spring, focusing on educating the public about Cherokee history and culture. The sessions, running from ...

CHEROKEE - The Museum of the Cherokee Indian will offer five days of immersive workshops, programs and field trips this summer, covering Cherokee archaeology, anthropology, history, folklore, ...