Journeying Into Cherokee: Help and Encouragement for Learning the Cherokee Language - Tapa blanda

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Ed Fields is a native Cherokee speaker who has taught the Cherokee language for over 20 years. His online classes have reached students all over the United States as well as countries as far away as England, Serbia, Italy, Norway, China, France, New Zealand, Belgium and Germany. In 2010 he was named a Cherokee National Treasure for his contributions to the language. Ed has been interviewed by the Cherokee Phoenix and was also featured in an OsiyoTV segment, Shade Tree Stories. He is a member of the Cherokee Nation Medicine Keepers, a small group which works to preserve traditional knowledge of plants and medicine. In 2022 Ed was a guest speaker for UC Berkeley. He was also named as project leader of a new archive at Northeastern State University, The Ed Fields Digital Cherokee Archive. In addition, Ed received the 2022 Cherokee Phoenix's Seven Feathers Award for language.

Mary Rae was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in Virginia. She graduated cum laude from Boston University with a B.A. in Spanish Language and Literature. In 2014, she began taking Ed Fields' online classes and has been studying the language ever since. In 2018 she passed the Cherokee Nation's proficiency test and, in 2019, she received her teacher certification from the Cherokee Nation. Mary has created Cherokee language curriculum for DAILP, the "Digital Archive of Indigenous Language Persistence," and maintains a youtube channel, "Tsalagi Elohi Igvnadena," dedicated to songs sung in Cherokee.