Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences will offer a new Cherokee language course series. (Photo/Courtesy) For the first time ever, this fall semester Duke’s Trinity College of Arts & ...

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Nine-year-old Lauren Hummingbird wants a cell phone for Christmas — and not just any old phone, but an iPhone. Such a request normally would be met with skepticism by her father, ...

Guest Opinion. Four years ago, the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act launched Cherokee Nation on a historic journey to preserving and perpetuating the Cherokee language. Language has always ...

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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — As the Cherokee Nation celebrates its 70th national holiday this weekend, the Cherokee Nation is trying to preserve Cherokee language and culture. Cherokee Nation’s hosts tribe’s ...

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Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of ...

Sometimes, it's not the meaning of a song's lyrics that get to you. It's the emotion in the singer's voice. That holds true even if the song is in a language you don't understand. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...

A team of scholars translated Cherokee inscriptions on Alabama cave walls and determined some of them were written in the 19th century as a ceremonial part of stickball games. A study published this ...