by Margaret Bender, Wake Forest University and Tom Belt, Western Carolina University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] If you wanted to learn the Cherokee language in the 1990s, there weren’t many written resources: three dissertations from the 1970s and ’80s, one textbook and a handful of college classes in North Carolina and Oklahoma. Even on most Cherokee land, it was unusual to see street or buil…
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