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 ...

Dr. Brittany Hunt grew up in Robeson County, North Carolina, where there's a large Indigenous population. But when she got to college, she was just one of a few Native students on campus. That’s when ...

“So my parents and myself, we’re products of that.” said Tiger, a Cherokee language teacher at Cherokee Central School. Tiger said although most families do have first-language speakers of tribal ...

WHAT -- Candessa Tehee, Cherokee Nation Tribal councilor and professor at Northeastern State University, will be lead a Cherokee Language Workshop that includes an overview of the language's history, ...

Members of the Cherokee Nation say there are less than 2,000 first-language Cherokee speakers left. They are fighting to keep their language alive. The Cherokee people believe their language is a gift ...

“Beginning Cherokee I” is in its first semester, making the course Yale’s first and only Indigenous language course that students can take to count toward their Yale College language requirement.

That’s the hope of Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who’s counting on more inclusive consumer technology — and the involvement of a major tech company — to help ...