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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</p>
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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.</p>
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“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 the<a href="http://nc-cherokee.com/" target="_blank" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(21,103,163);border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(226,226,226);background-repeat:initial initial">Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians</a>, and even off the Qualla Boundary, thanks to several stages of language revitalization efforts since 2005.</p>
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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 <a href="http://www.cherokee.org/" target="_blank" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(21,103,163);border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(226,226,226);background-repeat:initial initial">Cherokee Nation</a> in Oklahoma and the <a href="http://www.keetoowahcherokee.org/" target="_blank" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:1px;border-left-width:0px;border-style:initial;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-style:initial;outline-color:initial;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(21,103,163);border-bottom-style:solid;border-bottom-color:rgb(226,226,226);background-repeat:initial initial">United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees</a>.</p>
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