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Subscribe to RSSNow the Cherokees can say "There's an app for that." A specially designed keyboard allows students to type the language.
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Joseph Erb, helps out students Cambria Bird, left, and Lauren Grayson, right, in the fifth grade class of the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla., Cherokee children are asking for iPods and iPhones for Christmas this year, and their parents are having a much tougher time saying no than one might expect. Nearly two centuries after a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah developed a system of symbols for each syllable spoken by the Cherokee, the tribe's written language has become available on iPhone and iPods.
Sue Ogrocki / AP
Joseph Erb demonstrates the iPhone at the Cherokee Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Okla., Cherokee children are asking for iPods and iPhones for Christmas this year, and their parents are having a much tougher time saying no than one might expect. Nearly two centuries after a Cherokee silversmith named Sequoyah developed a system of symbols for each syllable spoken by the Cherokee, the tribe's written language has become available on iPhone and iPods.
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Like the color TV, digital technology will eventually find its way to every nook and cranny of the country. The inclusion of the Cherokee dictionary in the ipod electronic format will allow tribal members of all ages to instantly communicate with those who they had gone years without contacting. My people of the Zuni Nation are not at all, receptive to modern mans information age. It is my belief that the Bureau of Indian Affairs should look into providing this technology among the Navajo, Hopi and Ute tribes of the southwest, who are without real roads, land lines, television reception and regular mail service. Communication encourages social growth and harmony. The list of benefits is endless.