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Cherokee Language Audio-Visual Materials Development and Distribution


Language: Cherokee

Program Base: Small home-based business in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Goals:

  1. To produce audio-visual materials for teaching the language and history of Cherokee people.
  2. To reproduce books and audio books about Cherokee history, to preserve Cherokee songs, and to republish early writings about the Cherokees.
  3. To help produce and to distribute video documentaries about the history, language, and culture of the Cherokee people.

Brief Description:
Cherokee history and language are preserved through audio books, cassettes, flash cards, videos, and the written word. Early hymns clearly sung entirely in Cherokee are available on two cassettes. Also available is a book of more than 1,000 English names translated and written as the Cherokee would pronounce them. From time to time, Cherokee language classes are offered.

Materials:
Audio-visual materials, including videos which are distributed for the Cherokee Heritage Indian Education Foundation (CHIEF).

Support:
Revenues from the sale of items plus a percentage of the proceeds for distributing videos for the Cherokee Heritage Indian Education Foundation.

Contact Information:

Prentice and Willena Robinson Cherokee Language and Culture
4158 E. 48th Place
Tulsa, OK 74135

http://www.powersource.com/cherokee/lang.html
E-mail address: Call to request new e-mail address
(918) 749-3082
Cherokee Heritage Indian Education Foundation (CHIEF)
2934 E. 76th Place
Tulsa, OK 74136

http://www.chief-ok.org/
chief@galstar.com
(918) 491-6062 / Fax: (918) 491-6062

 

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