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, ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

A man the Cherokee Nation calls the “most influential Linguist since Sequoyah,” will be laid to rest on Tuesday. Dr. Durbin Feeling passed away last week at the age of 74. He is remembered for his ...

Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr says he's hoping to make a permanent investment in making sure the language is preserved. First-language speakers are Cherokee citizens who have been speaking Cherokee since they ...

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 ...

The Cherokee Nation is providing $800,000 in funding to the Little Cherokee Seeds program, which is a mother-infant program ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (KFOR) – Durbin Feeling, ...

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 ...