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Cherokee Nation</div></div></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:sans-serif;line-height:16px"><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit">
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Century-old journals, political messages and medicinal formulas handwritten in Cherokee and archived at Yale University are being translated for the first time.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit">
The Cherokee Nation is among a small few, if not the only tribe, that has a language translation department who contracts with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Ivy League universities for Cherokee translation projects.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font:inherit">
One of the tribe’s 13 translators, Durbin Feeling, is transcribing some 2,000 documents at Yale’s Beinecke Library, to catalogue and eventually make public.</p></div></div></div><div class="gmail_default">Access full article below: </div>
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