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- Rising above : language revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians / by Frey, Benjamin E.,1983-author;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-221) and index. Introduction: the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians -- 1. Coming home through language -- 2. Language and relationships -- 3. The piercing of our container via trauma and violence -- 4. Where's the joy? -- 5. Living in a good way -- Appendix A: Recommendations for language reclamation initiatives -- Appendix B: An incomplete list of Cherokee language learning and revitalization resourcesToday there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee language with trepidation as a young adult and his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community members. Rising Above navigates Frey's upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community. In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society. - Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Cherokee language; Indians of North America;
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- People of Kituwah : the old ways of the Eastern Cherokees / by Loftin, John D.,1955-author.; Frey, Benjamin E.,1983-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction -- Didalenisgv uninoheda : Eastern Cherokee creation and subsistence narratives -- Anigiduwagi sgadugi : Cherokee community -- Ulisgedi iyunadvnedi : Cherokee ceremonial life -- Nvwoti : Cherokee medicine -- The contact era : 1540-1760 -- Contact,colonialism, and Christianity -- Christian missions and the Ghost Dance : 1799-1815 -- Missionaries and medecine men : 1815-1828 -- Cherokees, Christianity, and myth : 1818-1830 -- Christianity and Cherokee removal : 1830-1838 -- Cherokee isolation, the Civil War, and traditional religion : 1839-1900 -- Cherokee traditions in the twentieth century -- Epilogue."According to Cherokee tradition, Kituwah is located at the center of the world and is home to the most sacred and oldest of all beloved, or mother, towns. Just by entering Kituwah, or indeed any village site, Cherokees reexperience the creation of the world, when the water beetle first surfaced with a piece of mud that later became the island on which they lived. People of Kituwah is a comprehensive account of the spiritual worldview and lifeways of the Eastern Cherokee people, from that beginning to today. Building on vast primary and secondary materials, native and non-native, John D. Loftin and Benjamin E. Frey show how Cherokee religious life evolved both before and after the calamitous coming of colonialism. This book offers an in-depth understanding of Cherokee culture and society"--Page 4 of cover.- Subjects: Cherokee Indians; Cherokee Indians;
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