“Sounds of Tohi”

Lisa Lefler wrote this jewel of Cherokee wisdom in collaboration with her longtime friend and colleague Tom Belt, citizen and beloved elder of the Cherokee Nation. The final paragraph offers up our assignment, as people of the settler-colonizer culture, to find a...

Focus on books by Benjamin Frey

Benjamin E. Frey, Ph.D. (EBCI) is Assistant Professor of Cherokee Language and Culture at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Frey’s research interests center on sociolinguistics, with particular emphasis on language shift. “The motivation for my interest in...

Bibliography

Here you will find a list of books, periodicals, films, videos . . . all of the resources we know of that pertain to our work educating the public about the history of colonization, genocide, resource extraction, and assimilation of the original inhabitants of these...