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<span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">September 12, 2013</span></div></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px"><div class="" style="margin:4px 30px 10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;float:left">
<div class="" style="margin:0px auto;padding:0px;border:0px;width:464px"><img class="" width="464" height="270" title="A Christian hymn, written in Cherokee, from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. (Photo by Michael Marsland)" alt="" src="http://news.yale.edu/sites/default/files/Cherokee2.jpg?1379019047" style="border: 1px solid rgb(129, 156, 187); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; height: auto; display: block; "><p style="margin:0.5em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.3em">
A Christian hymn, written in Cherokee, from the collection of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. (Photo by Michael Marsland)</p></div></div></div><p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.5em">
In a small classroom on the lower level of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, a cardboard box, small scraps of paper, and manila file folders are set out before three researchers. The modest setting belies the unprecedented project being undertaken.</p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.5em">For the first time ever, the Beinecke is delving into its Kilpatrick collection of Cherokee manuscripts, nearly 2,000 documents from the late 19<sup style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">th</sup> to mid 20<sup style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px">th</sup> centuries, all written in the hand of native authors. The goal is to discover what is in the collection, translate, and catalogue all the documents, and make them available to researchers and educators.</p>
<p style="margin:0.5em 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;line-height:1.5em">“We’re looking at personal documents of everyday life, such as diaries and letters to family members, as well as religious formulas, chants, incantations, and political documents,” said Lisa Conathan, archivist at the Beinecke. She has been leading the project with Hartwell Francis, Cherokee language program director at Western Carolina University and the Archibald Hanna Jr. Fellow at the Beinecke this September. Both are working in consultation with Durbin Feeling from the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, who is a recognized leader in Cherokee translation and author of the “Cherokee-English Dictionary.”</p>
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