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 & ...

The Cherokee Nation and Middle-earth are converging in a powerful new project that will give the language of the largest tribe in the United States a new global platform. For more than a year, ...

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, ...

CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) — Kevin Tafoya grew up hearing Cherokee all around him — his mother, a grandmother and grandfather, aunts and an uncle all spoke the language that now is teetering on the edge of ...

Guest Opinion. In today’s age, when technology can often leave us feeling disconnected from our cultural roots, Cherokee ...

There are currently roughly 290,000 Cherokee people in the world today. But only about 8,000 of those tribal members speak the Cherokee language. A disturbing trend that tribal leaders hope to reverse ...

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CHEROKEE, N.C. (AP) - Kevin Tafoya grew up hearing Cherokee all around him - his mother, a grandmother and grandfather, aunts and an uncle all spoke the language that now is teetering on the edge of ...

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, ...

The Associated Press reports that Apple has quietly incorporated Cherokee language support into iOS. Cherokee tribal officials were worried about the demise of the Cherokee language as the tribe aged ...

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 ...