Some linguists estimate that roughly half of the world’s 7,000 or so languages are on the verge of extinction. A language might die out when a small territory is forced to integrate with a ruling ...

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

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 ...

Cherokee Nation citizens who are a junior or senior in high school have just six days left to apply for the Rogers State University Language Concurrent Scholarship. This is an opportunity for students ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, Ga. - The Cherokee County School System has temporarily closed in-person learning for one high school after nearly 300 students and staff members had to be quarantined due to multiple ...

Jakeli Swimmer keeps a little black notebook nearby while he teaches. The worn pages of the spiral notebook are covered in his scrawled notes and doodles of legends he has heard since childhood. The ...

CHEROKEE COUNTY, GA — Cherokee County Schools announced students will return to the classroom on Monday, following a week of digital learning. Superintendent Brian Hightower thanked multiple people in ...

Woodstock school will reopen for in-person classes on Monday, Nov. 30. Students and parents at River Ridge High in Cherokee County are learning that a spike in COVID-19 cases and related quarantines ...