Yale Environment 360

Lector of Cherokee is Yale’s first faculty member in an Indigenous language

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 ...
Tulsa World

'Cherokee Word for Water,' film about Wilma Mankiller, to premiere at Circle Cinema

After watching several audition tapes, the real-life Charlie Soap was already leaning toward a certain actor to play him in a new movie, "The Cherokee Word for Water." And the casting director ...
WSPA

How Cherokee Co. first responders can find you, even if you don’t know where you are

GAFFNEY, S.C. (WSPA) – For 911 operators, finding someone’s location is easy when they have cell service, and multiple monitors in front of them showing maps, graphs and coordinates. “Three hours of ...
insider.si.edu

Cherokee National Treasures : in their own words / by the Cherokee National Treasures ; edited by Shawna Morton Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman

Cherokee National Treasures (Recipients of the Cherokee National Treasure Award) Cherokee National Treasures (Recipients of the Cherokee National Treasure Award) Notes "Our Cherokee National Treasures ...
Fox 23

Cherokee citizens explain culture and share plans about upcoming solar eclipse

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — FOX23 spoke with Cherokee citizens in Tahlequah who are planning to look at the solar eclipse in five days. They said their goal is to bring the spirit of what they say in their ...

One woman's journey to solve the housing crisis with empathy, love, and Cherokee heritage

In 1992, Wilma Mankiller gave the commencement address at Flagstaff’s Northern Arizona University. Several years earlier, Mankiller had become the first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, ...