That’s the hope of Principal Chief Richard Sneed of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, who’s counting on more inclusive consumer technology — and the involvement of a major tech company — to help ...

By itself, being able to read smartphone home screens in Cherokee won't be enough to safeguard the Indigenous language, endangered after a long history of erasure. But it might be a step toward ...

Long before the world had ever heard of COVID-19, the Cherokee language was in trouble. Last year, the three tribes in the U.S. declared a state of emergency because there are now so few fluent ...

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, ...

Nov 5, 2024 Nov 5, 2024 Updated Nov 6, 2024 0 TAHLEQUAH — Clifford Bark, a fluent Cherokee-language speaker, was one of a handful of second grade students who didn’t know English and couldn’t copy the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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, ...

TAHLEQUAH - A thousand miles from the Cherokees' ancient homeland, the Trail of Tears ended in a shady field where two winding streams merged. Elders from each of the seven clans sat down in the grass ...

Frey and Sneed said they recognize that some Cherokee will have concerns about tech companies making a product feature of their work to preserve their language — whether it's a text-based interface ...