This site is operated by Cherokee Gadugi of Tarrant County as a chartered satellite, non-profit, non-political organization of the Cherokee Nation. Its mission is dedicated to providing history, culture, heritage, tradition, language, and fellowship to our members who reside outside the Cherokee Nation boundaries.
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To read and write Syllabary, Cherokee Gadugi of Tarrant County provided the Mark Case workbook "Let's Learn Cherokee Syllabary" to each student in it's beginning to intermediate language learners group. The author, half Cherokee and half Apache was raised in a Cherokee-speaking home. Many find his workbook a valuable aid for those who are visual learners.
Updated: Mar 18, 2024
Voter registration and absentee ballot requests are being accepted by the Cherokee Nation Election Commission now and until March 28 and April 5 respectively. This election will decide if the Cherokee Nation citizens shall approve or reject a constitutional convention. Click this link to visit the Election Commission web page to get the voter registration form and Absentee Ballot request form.
The language group tackles "Beginning Cherokee" by Ruth Bradley Holmes and Betty Sharp Smith which teaches the rudiments of Cherokee, which is the native tongue of about 20,000 Americans, although most of those who speak it use it only as a second language. Cherokee has had several recognized dialects in the past. The two main dialects today are the North Carolina and the Oklahoma, or Western, which is a consensus of the different ways of speech among the Cherokees mingled there after their removal from the East in the 1830’s. This book uses the Oklahoma dialect.