Immersive Language School Renews Generational Dreams of Cherokee Culture
There are 9,600 people living on the Eastern Cherokee Reservation and fewer than 200 fluent Cherokee language speakers. The tribe’s New Kituwah Academy is helping the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians increase the number of fluent speakers and revitalize their language before it’s too late.
This video news story was reported by Pingpin Yin and Lynn Liu for the Medill News Service and Native News Online. To read the expanded version of the story, visit Native News Online: https://nativenewsonline.net/
