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Cherokee (ᏣᎳᎩ / Tsalagi)

Cherokee courses, Cherokee Syllabary, Cherokee dictionaries, Other Cherokee-related books


Cherokee courses

Beginning Cherokee

Beginning Cherokee

by Ruth B. Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith

- an good introduction to spoken and written the Cherokee language as it spoken in Oklahoma (Western dialect).

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Introduction to Cherokee

Introduction to Cherokee

by Gregg Howard

- a clear, well-written introductory Cherokee course.

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Intermediate Cherokee Language Program

Castiglioni's Vocabulary of Cherokee

by Luigi Castiglioni

- features one of the earliest published vocabularies of Cherokee. It was taken from Viaggio negli Stati Uniti dell' America Settentrionale (1790), an account of the early American Republic written by Luigi Castiglioni following his tour of the United States. A Milanese gentleman and botanist, Castiglioni recorded nearly 170 words in the Western or Upper dialect of Cherokee, and this new edition is translated from the original Italian. The volume also contains contemporary remarks on the language by the naturalist William Bartram (1791) and includes a valuable list of the names of 43 Cherokee towns which were inhabited during the 1770s.

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Cherokee dictionaries

Cherokee-English Dictionary

Cherokee-English Dictionary

by Durbin Feeling, William Pulte & Agnes Cowen

- a user-friendly dictionary with grammatical information about each Cherokee entry. The first part is Cherokee-English, with the plural of each noun and the principal parts of each verb, allowing the deduction of all other parts, followed by an English-Cherokee index, and finally a lengthy grammatical breakdown of the language.

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Cherokee Syllabary

The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance

The Cherokee Syllabary: Writing the People's Perseverance

by Ellen Cushman

- traces the history of Sequoyah's invention and explains the logic of the syllabary's structure and the graphic relationships among the characters, both of which might have made the system easy for native speakers to use. Also addresses the syllabary's enduring significance, showing how it allowed Cherokees to protect, enact, and codify their knowledge and to weave non-Cherokee concepts into their language and life. The result was their enhanced ability to adapt to social change on and in Cherokee terms.

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Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life

Signs of Cherokee Culture: Sequoyah's Syllabary in Eastern Cherokee Life

by Margaret Bender

- based on extensive fieldwork in the community of the Eastern Band of Cherokee in western North Carolina, this book uses a semiotic approach to investigate the historic and contemporary role of the Sequoyan syllabary in Eastern Cherokee life.

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Other Cherokee-related books

Seven Clans of the Cherokee Society

Seven Clans of the Cherokee Society

by Marcelina Reed

- a colorful, beautifully illustrated little booklet that gives a brief insight into the seven clans of the Cherokee and some interesting tidbits of historical information concerning the laws, customs and social organization of the tribe.

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The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees

by James Mooney

- James Mooney (1861-1921) was an American ethnographer who lived for several years among the Cherokee. He worked on major studies of Southeastern Indians, as well as those on the Great Plains. In 1885 he began working with the Bureau of American Ethnology at Washington, D.C. The Sacred Formulas of the Cherokees Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886 contains selected from a collection of about six hundred, obtained on the Cherokee reservation in North Carolina. Subjects include medicine, love, hunting, fishing, war, self-protection, destruction of enemies, witchcraft, the crops, the council, the ball play. They formulas embody almost the whole of the ancient religion of the Cherokees

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