Cherokee Literature for Kids - what was the Cherokee language like? What did their writing look like? What kinds of stories did they tell?

Cherokee Language

Cherokee is related to a group of Iroquois languages. Before the Spanish conquered the Cherokee, they had no way of writing their language, but they told many stories about themselves and their gods.

This is people speaking Cherokee:



To read Cherokee stories, try these books:


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