Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Preserving the Cherokee language, one word at a time.

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Sale for the New Year

Bullet Standingdeer at American Indian Heritage Celebration. Photo by Kristy Maney Herron.

Jan 6, 2017

Celebrate the new year by learning Cherokee!

Why I'm Learning Cherokee, First Language of Our Landscape by Dale Neal

Aug 2, 2016

".Gayotli Tsalagi Tsiwoniha..."

"I speak a little Cherokee."

Cherokee Words--How Many?

Bullet Standingdeer as Cherokee Emissary at Colonial Williamsburg

Apr 10, 2016

Cherokee Words – How Many? Part 1

A student asked last week “How many different words are there in Cherokee language? Do they have different words for hungry and starving? Or do they just say really hungry?”

It is snowing-- Gutiha!

Snow in the Smoky Mountains. Photo by Kristy Maney Herron

Jan 24, 2016

It’s Snowing –Gutiha

Here in the mountains it has been snowing for several days, as it has throughout the east. So here are some words for you to use to talk about snow.

Sale Continues

Dec 14, 2015

Sale continues through January 1! Everything will continue to be half-price through January 1.

Institute of Native American Studies at UGA Tries Your Grandmother's Cherokee

Dec 12, 2014

Wado, Jace Weaver and the University of Georgia for trying our method. And thanks, Jace, for your good words. Ditsvyalihelitseha--we appreciate you!

Native American Heritage Month--SALE

Bullet Standingdeer at Stone Mountain Indian Festival & Powwow

Nov 1, 2014

Native American Heritage Month = AniYvwiya

Going to Snowbird Community--Tutiyi--Your Grandmother's Cherokee Pilot Project

The Appalachian junco also called the snowbird, for which this Cherokee Community is named: Tutiyi. Photo by Christopher L. Wood.

Jul 8, 2014

Tonight we began a pilot project in the Snowbird Community, Tutiyi, in Graham County, NC.

Boston College expert Eva Garroutte calls ad against Redskins name 'well-conceived' USA TODAY SPORTS By: ERIK BRADY June 11, 2014 1:21 pm ET

Jun 13, 2014

Boston College sociologist Eva Garroutte is praising the ad against the Washington NFL team name that aired during the NBA Finals in selected markets last night<