Have PRIDE in being able to read, write & speak Cherokee language!!! The teachers I truly admire!!!

please do not give up the Cherokee language keep it going. thank you very much

The Cherokee spoken here is of the North Carolina (tsa-la-gi u-we-ti) dialect. I am of the Oklahoma Cherokee but am still able to understand most of what has been said in Cherokee dialogue in these videos!!

Thank you for preserving the Cherokee language. I'm sixty and this is the first time I've heard it spoken. I have family in Oklahoma that I've never met. I'm proud to be Cherokee.

If you know Cherokee you need to teach it to someone, this is a beautiful language that needs to be saved ᏣᎳᎩ

I was from Cherokee NC and my family speaks Cherokee and i went to Cherokee Elementary and middle and high school.

I sure hope the Cherokee's don't lose their language.

I wish the Cherokee people all the best of success in their revitalization efforts.

My Father was raised in Cowee, I in Nikwasi (Franklin)... my great grandmother was full Cherokee and it made me so happy to hear these places named in this documentary, we will keep this place alive. Cherokee language is still taught at Cherokee (NC) schools... so there is hope. I know it sucks to have to claim a relative for this, but it can and should matter to us to keep it alive.

ᎣᏍᏓ ᎾᏕᎦ ᏣᎳᎩ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ ᎠᏂᏬᏂᎭ ᏥᎪᏩᏘ ᎦᏬᏂᎯᏍᏗ ᎠᎴ ᎠᏂᏴᏫᏯ ᎤᏠᏱ osda nadega tsalagi gawonihisdi aniwoniha tsigowati gawonihisdi ale aniyvwiya utloyi It is great to see Cherokee language being spoken. Language is the same as our native people.

My grandmother took the trail you seen on the map that goes to Iuka, Mississippi in the northeastern part of the state and escaped the trail of tears. My family is still here in northeast Mississippi. She was the last person in my family to speak the language.

I'm so glad you are saving your language.

I would love to go learn the language. It's amazing that this is possible, today. It gives me joy to know the language is being revitalized and preserved.

This was the very best and most positive Documentary I have seen to date of the Cherokee Native American Indian people and I would wish this type of development upon all the many different Native American Indian Tribes in America if that was at all possible. Where there is a will there is a way and this is admirable. The most positive thing being the family units schooling together with the very small children learning from and with the elders. I also admired the School set up and the dedicated staff and using the best of both worlds with technology, Tablets and computers and what struck me was the Language is what the Cherokee people are about and it is who they are. This was brilliant and I was so pleased and so happy to see that 12,000 years of heritage is not being lost and there is a hope to preserve it and push forward with the children to maintain it and develop and grow so they have bi-lingual children who's first love is their own mother tongue. I wish the parents who do not know it could learn it too by returning to school that would ensure saving the language from extinction . This was amazing, well done and I wish you all great joy and happiness and success

This is so tragic yet inspirational. Nothing can break the Native American Indian Spirit. Bless you all. May Cherokee flourish

All my life, my native tounge had been denied me. Now too old to learn. Still, it's sound haunts my spirit. Like a dying man on a desert craves water. Yet, water upon touching his lips are too parched to receive. Still he guzzles it down. Knowing the fleeting moments won't last. Like the broken child's heart. The Spirit cries for more. It's been a long time coming.

The same happened in my country Ireland our native language and religion was outlawed hundreds of year's ago by the English..

this is really sad but true the government doesn't help they don't offer any language classes for cherokee and they also don't really teach much about anything native american in schools today its like they wanna get rid of our whole race but they forget that we were here first .

Siyo! I am of ᏣᎳᎩ (Tsalagi or Cherokee for readers who don't know) heritage and am trying to learn the language, but it is hard as I do not know anyone who speaks it and I live in Fl. So glad to have all of the language videos, books, and apps though.

That's my grandma Mary brown ❤️

Language is the reservoir of a culture. It's touching to see a precious culture staying alive or starting to strive again. Keep up the good work, You guys can do it! Blessings from Asia!

This is an excellent video on the Cherokee language. I’m so relieved to hear about the immersion schools; they are a sure way to increase native speakers. I’m not American Indian, but value their histories, languages and cultures. I’m sure there are tribes that are entirely gone, and that’s a tragedy. Bless all who work to the preserve and restore their richness. Can you record your elders? It wouldn’t be enough, but it might help.

Shirley, please keep teaching the Cherokee language.

I recognized my ex sister in-law working with kids from her reservation & I am so proud of what she does. Way to go Nancy H.!👍

"I am a person of this place." I understand that as a feeling. I feel that I belong to the land where I live. I eat the wild berries from the forest . I eat the fish from the creek. I build my home from the trees.

I’m definitely not Cherokee but I’ve spoke broken Cherokee since I was 12 since my grandma wanted me to speak it and I was just humoring her. Now I’m 23 and I speak it to my children and learn more everyday. It’s kept them safe from strangers before or saved them from embarrassment. Now it’s more of a time capsule and a story for my grandma as shes gotten much older since then. Now my husband, adopted from Korea and into a totally white family, wants me to teach him lately. It makes families closer, I believe.

I wish you so much luck and success with your project. Greetings from Germany:-)

My great grandmother spoke nothing but Cherokee, my mother, unfortunately never spoke it.

I think my Cherokee blood is the reason I feel a strong will to live off the land.

When the children go home, they need to teach their parents' the Cherokee language. Just a few words at a time. Possibily as a homework assignment. That way the children will feel extra smart. And it could end up helping their parents learn too. Plus, this will help reinforce and ingrain the language into their souls.

Heritage is so important to all people of the world.

I don't want to loose your language!! It is very important to me and I am Half Italian and Irish× English ,my grandfather told me as a child that on his fathers side of the family that we have Indian, native American mixed into us & I was just 7or8 years of age and I jumped for joy ,no grandfather spoke no words ,he was a yound toddler when his father went home to our Creator ,I cryed right soon as I got out of grandfather's site,then my Grammy came into my bedding area to see why I was crying, I beg add n to tell her why ...can understand and speak Italian ,not fluently ,I definitely understand what my Nona is saying lol she got her point across ,belive me ,she spoke broken English they called it..I hope that they keep speaking your language full time ...Thank you very much for sharing your video and knowledge with me ,I do appreciate it !

I just learned about my Cherokee lineage two years ago by my 92 year old Grandmother at the time. My Grandmother has been completely assimilated into the white way. She can not teach me anything. I believe that I am the only one she confided to about our bloodline. When I asked my Aunt she had no idea what I was talking about. I am so saddened by this.

It hurts my heart to know your people have suffered so much by the Caucasians as my people have. I also know many other peoples have suffered as your people. But I am also happy to learn that you’re teaching your children to speak the language. I am Hawaiian mixed with some Chinese. My father was a Native Hawaiian whose first language was hawaiian and lived when it was still outlawed to speak our native tongue. So he and our elders would speak it in the privacy of homes and private meetings. He would not speak to us his children in Hawaiian at all. Only words here and there. When I finally learned why my father did not teach or raise us speaking tHawaiian, it hurt my heart. We now have Hawaiian Immersion charter schools too, which I’m grateful for. Preservation of your culture and language is so important because to lose it completely is to say they win. Their purpose was to assimilate your and my people into their culture and language to get rid of anything that was part of our lives. It’s history repeating itself over and over.

The US state has committed so many crimes and needs to start standing up for it!

I really hope Cherokee becomes worldwide one day. I don't know if I can learn it, but I'll definitely try!!

I wish there was an online community for those of us who would love to learn our native tongue. I would love to learn Cherokee, I would freely speak my native language. It's bs they encourage kids to learn other languages but ban ours, the true language of this land we share. I think they want to smear us out because they are truly scared of us, if they tear us down we will never rise, ensuring their plan that we won't rise again. WE WILL NEVER BE SNUFFED OUT...we will always remain!

I really can appreciate the older generation wanting to teach the children the language and the culture of their nation.

I wish this had ten million more views.

Osiyo, Dohitsu ? Hello, how are you ? My Cherokee great great grandma was owned by a black northern lights family & severely beaten like a wild beast ! But she survived & was rescued by a sweet southern Carolina man who married her & became free to speak & think & live her life ! Oddly, even those who claimed we were a lesser then slaves not even considered smart enough of able enough to do anything right, we proved them all wrong & did so many incredibly amazing life changing things ! Thank you for this video ! Sincerely Pawl-Wadw / Paul~.

My grandmother's grandfather was Cherokee I wish I knew more of my great grandfather, when I hear the language or music I feel my heart & soul is saddened, maybe because my heart & soul remembers something that my conscience doesn't. Or I have a deep desire to know my ancestry & feel lost.

What an informative video!! Very inspiring and fruitful example of language revitalization efforts!!! Hope this will inspire others to help preserve their own dying languages and dialects..... when a language dies, knowledge dies with it... Thank you for producing and sharing this documentary.

My Grand father came back from the reservation in Oklahoma back to Alabama and eventually to the Cherokees beloved North Georgia. The language was lost in my family. Many not knowing their Cherokee Ancestry . There are other Cherokee in my Ancestory on both sides of my family. My Grandmother knew many ways of her culture and heritage yet very little of her language. I learned so much following her around the east Tennessee ridges and valleys, looking for medicinal plants, roots, berry's and materials for making a variety of items. preservation and making textiles, beadwork and basket making were fading in her years but she passed on as much as she knew. Her knowledge including, gardening, farming and the love for the earth was her blessing to myself and my sister. My Cherokee heritage is is instilled, cherished and loved in my heart. I pray the culture, syllabary and language are forever preserved. It is more than a culture, it is a respectful, moral way of daily living.

They used to teach that Hebrew was a dead language when I was in school. After the Six Day War they found out it wasn't. Don't let your language, traditions and beliefs die.

Thank you for this beautiful film. I am so hopeful for the Cherokee people to keep their language spoken.

Sounds like a mix of vietnamese, cantonese, and korean

It’s beautiful language. What a wonderful film! I learned a lot.

Please keep teaching children our language .Don't let it go away. Verona from Nashville Tennessee I Love & mis All of you. In my thoughts & Prayers.

Tom Belt,Loud and clear.Love You and gUrls,Save the language, Haida Gwai stands with You

50 second, you said lost everything. I feel same heart. The scene. Same. We say soc-dae, 솟대. The first sound of Society and daddy, soc + da.. im korean, your ancient relative,

Preserve your native language, I think it is mystical and resonates the connection to nature and balance. This world doesn't need a unified language because heritage and tradition becomes washed.

Native tounge is dangerous to the enemies because so few people can understand it

i love to learn the Cherokee language

This was wonderful! It's very inspiring and I learned a lot.

I caught a glimpse of Beloved Man and instantly knew I had to see this. Rest gently to the Great Spirit, Elder.

Beautiful so proud to see teaching the Language that for a very long time was forbidden this is amazing and made the great spirit continue to guild and mother earth continue to keep our people of all our Surviving Tribes thank you for this amazing opportunity🦅🪶🦅

Watching this in 2021. We have witnessed a full year of this SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic... Hearing fluent Cherokee (or Tsalagi Gawonihisdi) for the first time brought me to tears. 2021 marks the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Cherokee written syllabary. I dread to ask these questions now... How many Cherokee people have they lost? How many of their elders died because of this pandemic? I hope the Cherokee Nations will recover and heal. I hope all Indigenous peoples and their cultures will flourish again.

Very interesting series of videos

Great, the young has the opportunity to learn original language, very fortunate!

Keep up the great work,keep teaching the children the Cherokee language and way of life.my grandmother was fcherokee.i don't know if she spoke the language or not I wish I did.i'am almost 70 year's old.

Wado for this wonderful documentary.

Then please teach us! Don't send us away! My 2nd great grandmother was Southwestern SC reservation, a Wolfe and the government shrank the territory so she married a scots-irish. Now I'm beggining to find a way to learn tsalagi and when I contacted the eastern band council the receptionist laughed at me and told me I was lied to! No.. my ancestor is cherokee! I have almost black hair and dark eyes and I tan like nobody's business! Someone up there please give me the time of day and understand your old territory went right to Columbia SC.. well past my location range! I was once in your reservation land and I'm DYING to know "my" original language!! But laughing at those who are no longer in your reservation territory is not the way to go if you want to preserve the language! I learn fast, and want to know my ancestors' language way of life! Give us "mixed breeds" a chance here!

Our family came out west in the 1800s - I've just begun the online Cherokee language classes from the Cherokee Nation (free!) With first Lanark speaker Ed Fields! Wado to all who share the language!

I would love to see the language taught through online classes on zoom or some other internet community. We could then arrange gatherings to practice what we learn.

blessings for sharing, wado

Cherokee is an Iroquian language, which is quite different from the indo European languages. So of course there vocab will be different. Seems like Cherokee has cases as well, quite a few. Just like the Italic languages.

This film is so beautifully made and so important - I have cried many times while watching, and I feel for/with the people of these ancient and living valleys

I teared up with the lady who teared up my friend is half Cherokee so I am trying to learn about the people thank you for what you are doing this is important

I'm Cherokee from SC my grandmother full blooded Cherokee I'm so proud of it

Proud people!

Language is a vital link to our culture. I teach my grandchildren because it is the voice of their ancestors.

I'm watching from my camper home with my 2 dogs in Clanton Alabama

2019 May 5, Cherakee is Still Relavent........ HAYA HAYA

Ha, your man in the Wānanga o Aotearoa tshirt. Kia kaha!

I think it's just beautiful.

NEVER let these languages die!

My family is all Cherokee I'd love to learn to speak the language.

@5:17 Hav3 you heard a more absurd concept than to Americanize Cherokee? That's like saying the the We have to Greekify the Spartans. The Cherokee are more American than apple pie.

I am so honored I learned from your sharing.

This touches my heart and brings me JOY. Thank you for sharing tthis message of hope and peace.

I truly truly wish i could speak my cherokee langue..cherokee have suffer more then any other tribes in this world ..altho i LOVE being half cherokee no one will take that away from me

I'd love to get a recording of someone saying a traditional prayer (to the sun?) in Cherokee language.

Y'all are making me cry around the 41:08 mark. They say it's not just a language and that it's home. That reminds me of what I've heard about deaf sign language schools.

Keep going teaching the kids their heritage and their language it's so very important.

This language sounds somewhat similar in tonality to Japanese, and some other Asian languages

This was an interesting video. It’s sad to even imagine that one’s language, culture, or family would no longer exist in one’s own lifetime. What you do if you could prevent that from happening? Are you Awake? 🗣🤔

I cried for an hour after watching this…my dad is getting close to his time and i wanted to do a ceromony in his language…i never learned…. Thank you for this sight ps…we had relatives walk the trail of tears…..i was told by an Uncle from West Va

Thank you for sharing.

The language sounds Asian similar to Hmong and the other mountain Asian tribes all over Asia.

HALLO CHEROKE ZUSTERS EN BROEDERS DIT IS DE 2 DE KEER DAT IK ZO BESLISSING MAAK DIT VIND IK MOEILIJK GRAAG ZIE IK MORGEN NOG EEN KEER DEZE VIDEO WOUTER

So honored to have had the opportunity to view this beautiful culture,thank you much ❤️

Our Aunt was the only one to apply for and receive tribal recognition within the Eastern Band of Cherokee, I did all the research and my wife helped to get the documentation prepared. I sent it to all my mothers family members, all Cherokee on the mothers side, Grandfather full-blooded Cherokee but not on the dowels rolls!!! Grandmothers people were though. All Born and raised in Eastern United States. It is sad that many of us never learned about our Native culture and the Language and will soon be lost, you may only have one drop left, but when you have no culture and no language one drop makes only the smallest contribution!!! Yet it still give us hope!!! Dennison and Nicholson were my connection to the Tribes of Cherokee. I remember one set of Names were George and Martha Dennison, wink wink!!!

Wow they showed real Cherokees and not people claiming their great grandma was a Cherokee princess but look mega white

our language was beaten out of us it was forbidden to speak Cherokee especially in the Christian boarding prisons

My great grandmother is 90 and she refers to "the white man" a lot. She misses her Cherokee friends and family a lot but she has lost her memory so much over the last couple of months she has forgotten a lot about her life. She only remembers me and my sisters from 11 years ago and things from when she was a child. It's going to be sad seeing her, full Cherokee, lose the rest of her memory over 2021. My stepdad told me that we (me, my sisters, and everyone other than my moms sisters (and their husbands) don't know about her conditions and that this Christmas is probably her last. I just wish my Nana was still alive or I had been born sooner to learn this language. Now let me continue to watch this.. :I

This made me sad I pray that they will find in there hearts to know there native language

to preserve the language anyone who wants to learn it (native or not) should be allowed to learn it. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Just like science. Those who see the importance of it should be allowed to learn it FREE because it's something Christians and the religious are trying to take away

I can pick up bits and pieces cause it's similar to Japanese but the ones that are not I have trouble.

Blessing for all your hard work, for what you do for these Children. Studies show all children who learn a two languages gain a peak advantage in learning.

It would be so sad if we lost the Cherokee language. I'm 77 yrs. Old ! And I have lost it. I'm to learn it. Never too old to learn. I'm only 1/8 th Cherokee and I feel inside more Cherokee than any other.