‘Siyo, and welcome to another #WordWednesday! In honor of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth, let's learn a phrase that every Cherokee can say with pride not just this month but every month! 🙌❤️ ✊ | Cherokee Nation

In case you missed it: We're changing the face of the Cherokee Language Program, stepping up our efforts to ensure we save the Cherokee language! | Cherokee Nation

121K views · 4.8K reactions | This Indigenous leader invented a written language for the Cherokee people without being literate himself. | The History Page | Facebook

#ICYMI: A documentary months in the making, listen to the stories of Cherokee first language speakers and the efforts of the tribe to revitalize our language for the next generation of Cherokees. The first documentary of its kind for the Cherokee Nation, ᏣᎳᎩ ᎣᏥᏬᏂᏍᎪᎢ ᎠᎭᏂ | Cherokee Spoken Here. | Cherokee Nation

This year marks the 200th anniversary of the printing of Sequoyah's syllabary. Unlike the alphabet, a syllabary is a formal structure for the Cherokee language. It uses both English, alphabet and Cherokee symbols to construct words. In 1821, after 12 years of working on the written form of the Cherokee language Sequoyah and his daughter Ahyoka began showing his new writing system to the Cherokee people. In less than a decade, the Cherokee nation had a higher literacy rate than their white neighb

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