Nestled within the Smokies is one of the country's oldest tribal museums. Located on the Qualla Boundary in Cherokee, the tribal museum of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians has a new, vibrant look.

The elegance of the system made it easy for speakers to learn, and Cherokee literacy rates were reportedly high soon after ...

PORT TOWNSEND — At first look, the August Port Townsend Film Festival Pic, “The Cherokee Word for Water,” is about Wilma Mankiller. The larger picture, though, spotlights community members getting ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

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 ...

Agali — This name comes from the Cherokee word for "sunshine." Sitanka — This Sioux term means "big foot" and represents bravery and leadership. Peta — With roots in the Blackfeet Nation, this name ...

Set in the early 1980s, The Cherokee Word for Water begins in the homes of a small town in rural Oklahoma where many houses lack running water and others are little more than shacks. The movie is told ...

National conference highlighted a year of instruction and networking for new language program This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Cherokee language being adopted by the Cherokee Nation that — ...

In October 2019, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya was a year out of her master’s program and excited to begin an art residency at the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, New York. Tafoya, a member of the ...