Area residents with a desire to embrace native culture and learn to speak the Cherokee Language may attend free classes at Northeastern State University-Broken Arrow starting March 12. The 10-week ...

“Beginning Cherokee I” is in its first semester, making the course Yale’s first and only Indigenous language course that students can take to count toward their Yale College language requirement.

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 ...

Police departments across the Upstate are conducting DUI checkpoints to target drunk drivers on Blackout Wednesday, the night before Thanksgiving. READ MORE: https ...

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 ...

ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. (WJHL) — Sycamore Shoals State Historic Park hosted its 3rd annual Cherokee Heritage Day on Saturday, where community members spent the day learning all about the region’s local ...

Cherokee is Dennis Sixkiller’s first spoken language, but it wasn’t until the early 2000s that he learned to read and write ...

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 ...