WCU Joins Cherokee language partnership (fwd link)

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WCU Joins Cherokee language partnership

WCU press office • published June 8, 2008 8:42 am

Chancellor John Bardo on Thursday committed Western Carolina University to
joining a community-university partnership focused on revitalizing the Cherokee
language.

“Language does more than allow us to communicate with each other. Language is
how we conceptualize the world,” said Bardo, a sociologist by training. “I’m
very excited that Western is a part of keeping alive what it means to be
Cherokee.”

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Nation and Northeastern State
University, in Tahlequah, Okla. (capital of the Cherokee Nation) are Western’s
partners in the effort. Bardo formally committed Western to the partnership by
adding his signature to a memorandum of agreement between all parties. Eastern
Band Principal Chief Michell Hicks accompanied Bardo during the signing, which
took place during the fourth annual Language Revitalization Symposium in
Cherokee, an event that Western helped plan and sponsor.

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