Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have teamed up to decode a set of mysterious tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave. The inscriptions inside Manitou Cave, near Fort Payne, are evidence of ...

Sequoyah's Cherokee writing system: Before anyone understood what he was doing, Sequoyah was just a man making marks on paper, marks that looked meaningless to everyone around him. To others, it ...

Cherokee is spoken as a first language by fewer than 5,000 people, yet in recent years it has experienced a remarkable revival as a second language. But what happens when entire generations may have ...

FORT PAYNE, Ala. — Archaeologists and Cherokee scholars have finally interpreted Cherokee tribal inscriptions written in an Alabama cave hundreds of years ago. News outlets report the inscriptions ...

Creating an entire writing system is quite an accomplishment. Creating a writing system when you have never been able to read or write is even more remarkable, but that is exactly what the man called ...

While walking through a forest of sequoias, a father tells his family the story of the tree's namesake. Sequoyah was a Cherokee man who invented a system of writing for his people. His neighbors ...

A man the Cherokee Nation calls the “most influential Linguist since Sequoyah,” will be laid to rest on Tuesday. Dr. Durbin Feeling passed away last week at the age of 74. He is remembered for his ...