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Myrtle Driver Johnson
Myrtle Driver Johnson (born May 21, 1944) (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) is a native speaker of the Cherokee language. As of July 2019 she was one of 211 remaining Cherokee speakers in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI). In 2007, her tribe designated Johnson as a Beloved Woman for her translations from English into the endangered Cherokee language, support of language classes, and development of materials and literature for teaching. Language work Johnson serves as the EBCI Tribal Council translator and has translated for the EBCI bilingual immersion school, New Kituwah Academy (NKA), since about 2006. For NKA, she translated the children's book ''Charlotte's Web'', the first time the book had been translated into an indigenous American language. Johnson translated American author Charles Frazier's novel ''Thirteen Moons'' into Cherokee. It is loosely based on the life of William Holland Thomas, and explores the sociopolitical events related to Cherokee removal in 18 ...
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Museum Of The Cherokee Indian
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Eastern Band Cherokee People
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1944 Births
Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free France, Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command First Army (France), French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in North Africa. ** Landing at Saidor: 13,000 US and Australian troops land on Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to cut off a Japanese retreat. * January 8 – WWII: Philippine Commonwealth troops enter the province of Ilocos Sur in northern Luzon and attack Japanese forces. * January 11 ** President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a Second Bill of Rights for social and economic security, in his State of the Union address. ** The Nazi German administration expands Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp into the larger standalone ''Konzentrationslager Plaszow bei Krakau'' in occupied Poland. * January 12 – WWII: Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle begin a 2-day conference in Marrakech ...
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Amanda Swimmer
Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer (October 27, 1921 – November 24, 2018) was an Eastern Band Cherokee potter. Swimmer's career focused on coil-built Cherokee pottery, and she worked to determine the name and function of these vessels. She was recognized in North Carolina for her contributions to the state's artistic and mountain heritage, and in 2018 she was named a Beloved Woman by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Early life and education Swimmer was born Amanda Mabel Sequoyah to Molly Davis Sequoyah and Runningwolf Sequoyah on October 27, 1921 on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina. Amanda was the youngest of 12. As a child, she lived with her family in a log cabin in Big Cove, a community of the Qualla Boundary. Her family was self-sufficient and grew all of its own food. As a child, she attended Big Cove Day School.Swimmer, Amanda. Interview with Susan Gardner. Personal Interview, 13 October 1995, UNCC. Qualla Boundary, North Carolina. https://nsv.uncc.edu/interview/nasw0015.ht ...
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Jeremiah Wolfe
Jeremiah "Jerry" Wolfe (September 28, 1924 – March 12, 2018) was a respected elder of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In 2013 he was awarded the title of "Beloved Man" by his tribe, an honor that had not been given out for more than 200 years. Wolfe grew up in the Big Cove community on the Qualla Boundary in North Carolina. He was one of the last Cherokee stonecutters, a Indigenous North American stickball, stickball caller, a storyteller, and a United States Navy, US Navy and World War II veteran. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Western Carolina University. He was the recipient of ''The Order of the Long Leaf Pine'' in March 2017. He was a fluent speaker of the Cherokee language and supported teaching it to young people to revive and preserve the language. In this role, he was interviewed for the documentary "First Language – The Race to Save Cherokee". In July 2021, a segment of U.S. Route 441 in North Carolina, U.S. Route 441 (US 441), between U.S. Rou ...
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Cherokee Preservation Foundation
Cherokee Preservation Foundation is an independent nonprofit foundation established in 2000 as part of the Tribal-State Compact amendment between the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI) and the State of North Carolina. The Foundation is funded by the EBCI from gaming revenues generated by the Tribe; it is not associated with any for-profit gaming entity and is a separately functioning organization independent of the Tribal government. It works to improve the quality of life of the EBCI and strengthen the western North Carolina region by balancing Cherokee ways with the pursuit of new opportunities. The Foundation focuses on cultural preservation, economic development, job creation, and environmental preservation and is an engine for rural community development on the Qualla Boundary and the surrounding Haywood, Jackson, Clay, Macon, Graham, Swain and Cherokee counties. Activities Cultural preservation of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Much of Cherokee Preservation F ...
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Cherokee One Feather
The ''Cherokee One Feather'' is an English language newspaper in North Carolina published on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in Cherokee, North Carolina.Signs of Cherokee Culture; Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life
by Margaret Bender (2003)
It has been published since at least 1967. Robert Jumper is its editor. The paper has received awards for its work. The paper has covered events promoting the tribes' cultural identity. wrote about the paper noting its popularity in the community and influential role in North Carolina's Cherokee commun ...
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Cherokee Nation Immersion School
The Cherokee Immersion School (, ''Tsalagi Tsunadeloquasdi'') is a Cherokee language immersion school in Park Hill, Oklahoma, with a Tahlequah post office address. It is for children during pre-school to grade 8. It was founded by the Cherokee Nation in 2001 for the purpose of preserving the heavily endangered Cherokee language. Students must be members of a federally recognized tribe, and an application process is used as class size is limited. After finishing at the Cherokee Immersion School, students typically transfer to an affiliated school for grades 7 and 8. Attending the immersion school can help students enroll into Sequoyah High School (grades 9 through 12). Total enrollment was reported to be 141 in August 2018. Background There were 1,520 Cherokee speakers out of 376,000 Cherokee in 2018 according to Ethnologue, which classified the language as "moribund", meaning children are not learning and speaking the language. Only a handful of people under 40 years of age are ...
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