<div dir="ltr"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><b><font size="4">CN Translation Dept. translates Yale’s archived documents</font></b><br><br></font><div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">12/9/2013 4:05:53 PM<br></font><span style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif">BY STAFF REPORTS</span><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><br>
<br>TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation’s Language Translation Department – which contracts with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Ivy League universities for Cherokee translation projects – has been transcribing nearly 2,000 Cherokee handwritten documents at Yale’s Beinecke Library to catalogue and eventually make public. <br>
<br>“Our speakers are taking Cherokee history, in the form of our language, and preserving it for our future by incorporating our written alphabet into smart phones and computer language settings, making it possible for our youth to email entirely in Cherokee,” Principal Chief Bill John Baker said. “They are one of our most valuable resources, not only passing on their wisdom to our Cherokee immersion students learning to speak, but for our future who will know more about our lives and way of thinking, revealed in all these translated archived manuscripts.”</font><div>
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