Native America

Reading Between the Lines in Cherokee

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians archaeologist Beau Carroll and Cherokee Nation citizen and historian Julie Reed explore a cave containing some of the earliest evidence of Cherokee writing. Tom Belt, an expert on the Cherokee writing system, translates the words, but to understand what they mean, he needs to provide the when and why they were written.

Reading Between the Lines in Cherokee

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