How to pronounce “cherokee” in English

Cherokee syllabary invented by Chief Sequoia in 1819.

said Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr. at the time.

As Cherokee writer and scholar Adrienne Keene points out, donning a headdress means “contributing to the culture of power that continues the cycle today.”

or Cherokee, or Lakota knowledge to bring it up to a parity with Western so then we can start having a real dialogue.

The "Cherokee Rose Buds" was a newspaper printed at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.

The "Cherokee Phoenix," which I showed you earlier, is still actually printed today.

The Cherokee Nation wanted to work with IBM to create a Cherokee typewriter element so they could switch out the language with it.

the Cherokee language. So they study everything in Cherokee, from pre-K to sixth grade.

In Cherokee, the word "cadugi" talks about-- it's meaning working together or the idea of community.

the Cherokee Nation.

And Cherokees-- we were always printing basically everything.

The Cherokees were first have a telephone west of the Mississippi.

But as the Cherokee Nation pointed out in a statement, a drop of blood is not what makes someone Native.

The Eastern Band of Cherokee have one.

Was killing Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminoles not enough to quench your imperialism?

Was killing Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Seminoles not enough to quench your imperialism?

And the Cherokee Nation is doing some really interesting things.

But the Cherokee was not the equivalent of the English.

There's the Cherokee constitution printed up entirely in Cherokee in 1875.

It's a Cherokee shorthand used by the court reporters in 1890.

This is the "Cherokee Advocate."

So people started making Cherokee fonts.

He came down to Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, and they met up.

He was interested in Cherokee language and different writing systems.

But the Cherokee Nation font here is the one that really solidified its status as the standard font for a long time after that.

And it put Cherokee language support on the system.

The word "skadugi" in Cherokee actually means community.

An interesting aspect of Cherokee is how the language talks about these concepts of-- other languages, too, but-- you, me, his, her, their, our.

So they got to Cherokee.

But he wanted the Cherokees to be able to communicate just like everyone else.

And they taught Cherokees as well as whites.

Even more Cherokees are designing fonts, too, but it's nice to see this explosion of font design for us.

And Bobby used to own Cherokee jeans.

And so if you could speak Cherokee, you obviously knew what it said.

We had almanacs printed entirely in Cherokee.

The text here-- when you see Cherokee, that's a Google font, called Noto Sans Cherokee.

So he developed this newsletter called "The Cherokee Speaker."

But he wanted to continue printing Cherokee materials.

This is a page from a Cherokee primer that was made in 1965 using that type.

Durbin is considered the foremost expert on Cherokee language now.

He's been working in the Cherokee language for about 40 years, longer than that.

This is considered probably the very first Cherokee font that was designed by an actual Cherokee, by Franklin McLain.

So he donated his word to the Cherokee Nation and the United Kituwa band of Cherokees, which is another political faction of Cherokees.

That was the largest explosion of Cherokee language we've ever had.

And there is the Noto Sans Cherokee Google font, which I think is really great.

We record a lot of Cherokee speakers and cultural activities.

So you can go there to the Cherokee Nation's YouTube channel and watch the various videos that we have about Cherokee language.

So it's neat to see the Cherokee language in this setting.

This is a screenshot of the "Cherokee Phoenix" now.