The Cherokee Nation said nearly 200 Cherokee Syllabary keyboards were donated to Cherokee speakers and those learning the ...

There are 56 million Americans with disabilities alive today, representing approximately one in four people. Disability culture and activism has existed from ancient times to present, but we rarely ...

In 1928 French archaeologist Maurice Dunand began excavating the ancient coastal city of Byblos, located in what is now Lebanon. Byblos was an important Phoenician city whose origin dates back to ...

As almost everyone knows, sequoia is the name given to a giant tree typical of California’s Sierra Nevada that can exceed one hundred meters in height and ten meters in diameter. However, one of its ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. As early as 1809, Sequoyah (ca. 1775–1843) began working on a system for writing the Cherokee language. In 1825 the Cherokee Nation officially ...

Cherokee syllabary inscription from 1.5km into Manitou Cave (average element vertical height approximately 80mm) A. Cressler; Carrol, et. al., Antiquity On April 30, 1828, a Cherokee stickball team ...

National conference highlighted a year of instruction and networking for new language program This year marks the 200th anniversary of the Cherokee language being adopted by the Cherokee Nation that — ...

The Cherokee are still the largest indigenous people of North America today. In contrast to the "talking leaves" of the English and the secessionist colonists with whom they concluded treaties, the ...

Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 116, No. 3 (Jul. - Sep., 1996), pp. 453-474 (22 pages) The texts presented here belong to a category of syllabary texts in which Syllabary A signs are ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 22: Talking Leaves and Lightning Paper Mike Vuolo Mike Vuolo is a radio and podcast producer and the host of Lexicon Valley. Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ ...

On October 9, 2025, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, @ban_nanna_ shared a heartwarming video of children learning to read. The video shows a classroom of young students reciting the syllabary, led by one ...