Ga-du-gi: A Vision for Working Together to Preserve the Cherokee Language. Report of a Needs Assessment Survey and a 10-Year Language Revialization Plan. Cherokee Nation Technical Report 918, 2002.
Ga-du-gi: A Vision for Working Together to Preserve the Cherokee Language. Report of a Needs Assessment Survey and a 10-Year Language Revialization Plan [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
In the late 1960's the Cherokee Nation (CN) began the noble effort of instruction in the Cherokee language. However 42 years later, the demise of the Cherokee language has reached a critical stage and the language may be only one or two generations from extinction. In response, the CN has engaged in a bold new language revitalization initiative to challenge Cherokees of all ages to not just speak the language in its rudimentary form but to be proficient in the more complex and beautiful aspects of the literate language. Funds provided by the US Department of Health and Human Services Administration on Native Americans in 2002 allowed the CN to quantify the language fluency rate of persons living within the CN jurisdictional service area and develop a long-range language preservation plan. The principle way that information was gathered was a convenience sample (n=300) survey, which generated quantitative data. The second method was a key informant process that collected qualitative information from individuals knowledgeable about the Cherokee language. Three major findings generated are a call to action for the Cherokee Nation to preserve the language.

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