The three federally recognized Cherokee tribes have declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language. There are only about 2,000 fluent speakers in those tribes, news_BPR reports.
Myrtle Driver Johnson is 75 years old. She’s an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and a Beloved Woman.“I’m the translator here and I’m also the translator for the tribal council,” says Johnson.
She’s one of just 211 members of the tribe who are fluent speakers, and has served as a translator for the Eastern Band since the 1970’s. She also works at the New Kituwah Academy to help kids in the tribe learn Cherokee.officials from Cherokee Nation, Keetoowah Band and the Eastern Band came together as the Tri-Council to declare their language is in a state of emergency. They also passed a resolution to work together to revitalize it.
“When they signed it they made an agreement with us that they are going to help us. I’m not going to let them forget it,” says Johnson, who has been working to teach and preserve the Cherokee language. There are only about 2,000 fluent Cherokee speakers in the three federally recognized tribes. The resolution states that number is diminishing faster than new speakers are developing.
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