We recently traveled to Southern California to meet up with at-large Cherokees in the Los Angeles/Orange County area and the San Diego area! ☀️ Wado to the nearly 900 Cherokees who gathered with us for a weekend full of culture, fellowship and #CherokeeGoodness! ❤️ | Cherokee Nation

Cherokee Nation History and Preservation Officer Catherine Foreman-Gray explains why the 1839 Act of Union is an important piece of Cherokee history and how it unified two branches of the Cherokee people into a single Cherokee Nation government 183 years ago. #ActOfUnion #183years | Cherokee Nation

9.9K views · 948 reactions | Language is one of the most important aspects of Cherokee culture. Learn how to say “language” with Cherokee Word of the Week. | Visit Cherokee Nation | Facebook

Today, we celebrate #SequoyahDay in honor of the 200th anniversary of our written language, the Cherokee Syllabary. Learn about Sequoyah and his creation of the Syllabary in this animated video brought to you by the Cherokee Nation Language Department with help from the Cherokee Nation Film Office. #CherokeeSyllabaryBicentennial #ᏣᎳᎩ | Cherokee Nation

New efforts are underway to record and preserve our beautiful Cherokee language. ❤️ The Cherokee Nation Language Department has been meeting with Cherokee Speakers to record their conversations and has already recorded 282 Cherokee Speakers speaking for a total of 352.5 hours, with a goal of reaching 10,000 hours. The hope is that these recordings will assist and be a point of reference for second-language learners in the future. Speakers being recorded for this project must be fluent and posses