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.

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 ...

The University of Tulsa is renewing its efforts to help preserve the Cherokee language. This is one of several efforts underway to teach more people the language, which is considered to be extremely ...

SALINA, Okla. — Free Cherokee language classes will be held at Salina Early Learning Academy in August and September. The classes will be held on Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. starting on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Students at Duke University will take a field trip to Cherokee, North Carolina as a part of the new language course. For the first time ever this fall, Duke University will offer a new online 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 ...