Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of ...
Cherokee is spoken as a first language by fewer than 5,000 people, yet in recent years it has experienced a remarkable revival as a second language. But what happens when entire generations may have ...
Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system: Before anyone understood what he was doing, Sequoyah was just a man making marks on paper, marks that looked meaningless to everyone around him. To others, it ...
Creating an entire writing system is quite an accomplishment. Creating a writing system when you have never been able to read or write is even more remarkable, but that is exactly what the man called ...
FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have finally interpreted Cherokee tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave hundreds of years ago. News outlets report the inscriptions ...