Archived Cherokee letters translated for Yale University (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

*Archived Cherokee letters translated for Yale University*

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. —Century-old journals, political messages and medicinal
formulas handwritten in Cherokee and archived at Yale University are being
translated for the first time.

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.

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.
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http://www.cherokee.org/News/Stories/091313ArchivedCherokeeletterstranslatedforYaleUniversity.aspx
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