One of Chad Berry’s early slides during his Feb. 8 talk on Appalachia and its people acknowledged that Berea College, like East Tennessee, is located on lands originally occupied by what is now the ...
Two hundred years ago, the brilliant statesman and inventor Sequoyah presented the Cherokee syllabary to the Cherokee Nation. This year we are honoring the bicentennial of Sequoyah’s historic ...
VONORE, Tenn. — Indigenous Peoples Day is approaching, which focuses on the communities and people whose lives and cultures were changed by colonial practices. In 2021, President Joe Biden issued a ...
I have also attached photos that I took of the birthplace museum: The first is the building signage in Cherokee and in English. The second is the museum exterior. The third is a mannequin of Wes Studi ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. DEKALB COUNTY, Ala. – Almost 200 years after ...
Howard Paden works daily to preserve Cherokee language and lifeways. Jeff Edwards brings the Cherokee Syllabary into his award-winning art, and Mary Jean Robertson uplifts Native voices through 50 ...