Cherokee language | Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Sale for the New Year

Bullet Standingdeer at American Indian Heritage Celebration. Photo by Kristy Maney Herron.

Jan 6, 2017

Celebrate the new year by learning Cherokee!

Why I'm Learning Cherokee, First Language of Our Landscape by Dale Neal

Aug 2, 2016

".Gayotli Tsalagi Tsiwoniha..."

"I speak a little Cherokee."

Cherokee Almanac for July 1838

Jul 16, 2016

“Cherokee Almanac for the year of our Lord 1838, fitted to the Meridian of Fort Gibson” was printed in 1837. The Mission Press was set up at Park Hill before most Cherokee people arrived from the Trail of Tears. John F.

Make Cherokee Sentences with Dictionary -- Part 2

Bullet Standingdeer in 18th century clothing

Jun 5, 2016

Last week we gave some patterns for sentences so that you can use our dictionary to make sentences and speak Cherokee. A dictionary subscription is $6.99/month.

Here are some patterns for asking questions.

Make Cherokee Sentences Using Dictionary - Part 1

May 22, 2016

You can use our dictionary to make sentences and begin speaking Cherokee. The patterns for sentences in Cherokee are very regular, so we will explain in the blog this week and next week how to do this.

Cherokee Words--How Many? Part 2

John Standingdeer portrays Ostenaco in council house

Apr 22, 2016

Cherokee language has more words than English for some topics, and these may show what was important for thousands of years. In an earlier blog we talked about all the words for running. There are also a lot of words about speaking.

Cherokee Words--How Many?

Bullet Standingdeer as Cherokee Emissary at Colonial Williamsburg

Apr 10, 2016

Cherokee Words – How Many? Part 1

A student asked last week “How many different words are there in Cherokee language? Do they have different words for hungry and starving? Or do they just say really hungry?”

A Living Language

John Standingdeer Jr. Photo by Kristy Maney Herron

Feb 28, 2016

One tribal member expands efforts to teach the Cherokees' traditional language

NEW! Get monthly subscription to Dictionary, Make-A-Word

Feb 20, 2016

NEW! You can now subscribe monthly for only $6.99 to our Dictionary or Make-A-Word. Get both for $13.98 monthly. These are optimized for smart phones and tablets as well as computer, so you can have 80,000 Cherokee words at your fingertips, any

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Ancestors--photos of Swimmer and Qweti by James Mooney, Qualla Boundary, 1880s

Feb 8, 2016

Why it matters that I try to figure out the language:

It matters that you try…

It is in the trying that you honor the ones that came before you.

They are why you are here.

Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Preserving the Cherokee language, one word at a time.

Sale for the New Year

Why I'm Learning Cherokee, First Language of Our Landscape by Dale Neal

Cherokee Almanac for July 1838

Make Cherokee Sentences with Dictionary -- Part 2

Make Cherokee Sentences Using Dictionary - Part 1

Cherokee Words--How Many? Part 2

Cherokee Words--How Many?

A Living Language

One tribal member expands efforts to teach the Cherokees' traditional language

NEW! Get monthly subscription to Dictionary, Make-A-Word

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