Groups bring new life to the ancient Cherokee language (fwd link)

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Groups bring new life to the ancient Cherokee language
Written by Katy
Nelson<http://www.carolinapublicpress.org/author/katy-nelson> on
July 17, 2012 US
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Myrtle Driver teaches Cherokee words and syllabary terms for painting, and
reviews kickball terms at Cherokee Language and Culture Camp held at Big
Cove Recreation Center in Cherokee, N.C., on Monday, July 9. “First and
foremost is to save our language,” Driver says. Mike Belleme/Carolina
Public Press

CHEROKEE — A van packed with campers wet from swimming pulls up by the Big
Cove Recreation Center on a simmering June day. The campers pile out,
shouting “Siyo!” and sporting big smiles as they enter their classroom at
their Cherokee Language and Culture Camp.

“Siyo” means hello in Cherokee, and tribal leaders say it is a word heard
much more often today around Cherokee and in the halls of the New Kituwah
Academy, the Cherokee language immersion school of theEastern Band of
Cherokee Indians <http://nc-cherokee.com/>, and even off the Qualla
Boundary, thanks to several stages of language revitalization efforts since
2005.

Bringing the Cherokee language back to life after centuries of assimilation
is uniting enrolled members of the Eastern Band, faculty and staff members
at Western Carolina University and enrolled members of the two other
federally recognized Cherokee tribes, the Cherokee
Nation<http://www.cherokee.org/> in
Oklahoma and the United Keetoowah Band of
Cherokees<http://www.keetoowahcherokee.org/>
.

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