Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Preserving the Cherokee language, one word at a time.

Why has no one seen this? (Or have they?)

Portrait of Stephen Peter DuPonceau by Thomas Sully, 1830

We have asked ourselves this many times, after the patterns of Cherokee became clear. The language seemed so simple, and yet so incredibly beautiful. It was logical and consistent to a degree that scholars today say is impossible.

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