Keeping Language Alive: Cherokee Letters Being Translated for Yale (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

*Keeping Language Alive: Cherokee Letters Being Translated for Yale*

Cherokee Nation
September 27, 2013

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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