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 ...

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 ...

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — It’s a language only a few thousand people in the United States know, but the University of Arkansas is hoping to change that by offering students the chance to learn Cherokee.

Children learned about the Cherokee people through a series of stories presented at the Baker and Zachary library branches Nov. 23-24. "Cherokee Tales," developed in partnership with the Cherokee ...

If you speak Cherokee already, all you have to do is memorize this and you’re literate.“I mean the whole tribe, within just a few months after they adopted it, they were reading and writing.“People ...

For generations of families, Lost City School was more than a place to learn. It was home. Opened in the early 1900s, the ...

At Maxwell Park Library's Thursday night Cherokee language class, teachers are students and vice versa. About two years ago, the class's former instructor resigned because of an illness, so a group of ...

Cherokee Vocational High School opened in Cherokee in 1925 and graduated its first senior class in 1926. The following history and photos were contributed by CVHS former students Bobby Knight and ...