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.

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 ...

TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma – The nation's largest Indigenous tribe, with more than 430,000 citizens, is stepping up efforts to preserve its native language, with immersion schools and programs designed to ...

Like many other indigenous languages, the Cherokee language has lost native speakers over the years. However, on Dec. 3, language preservation efforts got a boost from who else but the U.S. Department ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: This interview first appeared in Path Finders, an email newsletter from the Daily Yonder. Each week, Path Finders features a Q&A with a rural thinker, creator, or doer. Like what you ...

The Cherokee Nation will raise the pay for employees who speak or start learning Cherokee, and the Nation will expand home health for elderly native speakers, as part of an increasing effort to ...

A nation far flung, miles and miles of unpaved roads and a people wary of speaking with outsiders: Two storytellers faced a slew of hurdles when they set out to chronicle the dwindling Cherokee ...

Education was the topic of the Cherokee Nation’s monthly Lunch & Learn April 15, with Julie Reed speaking on how her two books on education evolved. Reed, who was recently hired at the University of ...