The Cherokee language

Mandy swimmer reminds me of my maternal grandmother those eyes and cheeks they used to talk some language I thought it was “pig Latin” my mother was from North Carolina my father was from Florida. My children I teach them as I was taught be proud to be a Cherokee but I can remember some of my grandmothers stories

May God bless you all.

My great grandmother was Cherokee. Her accent was southern but there was also something different about it. Now I know why. She sounded just like these people.

the Navaho code talkers of WW2 were heroes. No other country could break their language.

The Cherokee actually have quite the story. Originally from the eastern Great Lakes region, they migrated south long ago, into the Appalachians of western North Carolina, northwestern South Carolina, northeastern Georgia, and eastern Tennessee. They lived on that land for many centuries, but then Europeans kicked them off their land, sending them to reservations in Oklahoma. Although most of them live there now, some still live in their traditional lands in the east, including the lovely old woman in the video.

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It's the same way here where I live in oklahoma on the cherokee nation reservation and most the youth here does not know the syllabat which is weird cause Sequoyahs house is like 20 minutes from where I live and we all have grown up here seeing the cherokee sylabat but they would never teach us in school when i was a kid our reservation just now got recognized like a year or 2 ago I grew up with the cherokees descendants that walked the removal one of the national historic sign to the end of the trail of tears is only about 2 or 3 acres away from my property here on the rez it makes me sad seeing the younger generation doin worse then mine and the generation before us did they don't even care about the culture or they don't even know the mythos and stories of cherokee legend to say dog in cherokee is gently but if you ask someone younger round here they will Deeohhgeeee makes me sad inside everytime cause thas a joke we play on basic white washed people

No one destroyed a people as well as the founding fathers of Amerika!

I hate what they have done to the native Americans..

You are talking about US, not you crooks!!!!!! I'm listening to y'all talk about what happened to my ancestors!!!!! This racist white government gave y'all our culture, history, language and land. You are a "FAKE CHEROKEE!!!!!!"

i have passed down to me the Cherokee alphabet book that teaches the language and teaches the names of the animals in my possession still most ive learned is hello and my name but hard to speak it alone and i wouldnt know if i mispronounced anything .

I'm 67 and British and I'm sitting here trying to type this with tears in my eyes. I can not believe that all those centuries ago the British, (along with other nations) poured into what is now the U.S.A and virtually destroyed the indiginous people of that country. I'm saddened to be in the knowledge of that and so sorry for the native American people. I wish I could change it.

Sound pretty much like Vietnamese and Cantonese. I suspect they have some Polynesian influence cause Polynesians were originally from Southeast or East Asia.

Cherokee with a strong western North Carolina accent

Fight for the Saponi to be declared a tribe. The torture and kidnapping of native children is a horror that has never seen justice. Shame on this nation for the continued forgetting of them and their language.

This reminds me a lot of what the English did in Wales.
They banned speaking the Welsh language and had schools for Welsh kids to learn English in, And people who spoke Welsh would be besten

My great-grandmother was Cherokee. I used to braid her long silver hair and talk to her for hours. She passed away when I was in high school in 1995, but I know that she still guides me to this day. She was the bedrock of my family and a very strong woman.

This makes me cry.

My Ancestors where full-blooded

Based on the ages of the older folks in this video, I would wager they were all born between 1915 and 1940 (This documentary was released in 2005). What's interesting is that from their accounts, Cherokee seemed to be doing well enough during their childhoods to have communities wholly made up of Cherokee-only speakers. Now this video posits that colonial and early American periods featured boarding schools that forced Cherokee children to speak English, but as far as I'm aware, this practice would have waned during the 20th century. It seems like much of the declining of the language occurred after WW2, and possibly after the Civil Rights Movement. I'm curious as to the cause of this apparent 20th century decline in the use of the language.

Teach some of us half breeds that you don’t believe in, and we can breed the line back. We can learn if we want to marry one of the men or women. You obviously don’t understand what someone will do for love. True love will conquer time, language and diversity.

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You mean to tell me the government has ALWAYS used schools as a way to separate children from their parents?

there is no such thing as a Cherokee language the real Cherokee was Iroquois speaking!

Fr. Charlevoix, in his introduction to his two volumes on his journey from Quebec to New Orleans in 1721, discusses the opinions of the experts of his time on the origins of the Native American languages.

My great-grandmother was Cherokee

There's only about 3 million Native Americans in the USA today,
but if you count those who are "part" Indian, both Whites, Blacks,
and Mixed-race people, the number jumps-up into the TENS OF
MILLIONS!

I think the majority of Native Americans mixed out of their race
back in the 1800s, and into the White and Black races where their
presence can still be tracked via DNA testing.

Your language to high school!!

Hahdicicnwowo siaiiccpwpqp ixucnslqpeuf hubbabubbachewinggum heyhowareyaheyhowareyaheyhowareya my ancient Cherokee Indian name 🦬

So… do they speak English with a country accent or is the country accent really Native?

Get away from The cristian religion and go back to your heritage... The ancesteral ways, but in modern times... We have to learn to adapt

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I like the part when she said ᏣᏔᎧᎿᏀᏍᏜᏩᏯᎦᎭᎳᎹᎾᏆᏌᏓᏝᎡᎢᎣᎥ

My grandmother used to sing to me and my sister in Cherokee. She used to say nature was here before us so we must honor that

My grandmother was Cherokee and Sioux when she passed away she handed her gifts down to me so I’m a sacred clown

🙏🏽Please My Kin,Never FORGET what was done us! Don't FORGET we are the Originals and don't FORGET our languages of great sounding Beauty and it's history of belonging!

Indians are dumb.

Interesting! I'm originally from Perry County,, KY - and I hear Southern mountain in their English speech!

People with my nose!

I'm of Taino descent and I plan to change my surname to Otaymon. It sounds more authentically Native and not Spaniard derived. There isn't a lot to go around when it comes to my ancestors language, but seeing the names of different warriors in the 1511 rebellion helped. A lot of Ys were in such names. And Guabiron is the surname of the overseers of the afterlife, Coaybay 🇵🇷♥️

Love this. So interesting to listen to it.❤

Sad.

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God bless you

I like original people in America speak tueir original languages araund all America from AlasKa to la patagonia in Argentina.

Thanks for all information. I'm from Oaxaca Mexico I'm indigenous I speak Mixteco. Brothers and Sisters Good Bless you

E poi rompono i coglioni con gli ebrei. Questo fu un genocidio di gran lunga più grave ed esteso.

My Cherokee ancestors took the last name of Half Breed for a while lol