I was blessed enough to be around my great grandmother. She was born in the 1800s, she would teach us different words in the Cherokee language. I am still learning.
I am Cherokee, although I am not enrolled and I have not grown up in the culture my biggest wish is to help my ancestors legacy to live forever. So I am studying the language. Hopefully one day I can have tribal membership and help even more.
In order to be "enrolled" your ancestors by 1890 had to be registered on the Dawes Rolls (or earlier rolls) and they had to live on a reservation. You have to be able to prove descent from ancestors on these rolls to gain Tribal membership. And any Indians who refused to go to a reservation by this time lost, according to the US gov't, their Indian Tribal citizenship.
@@karenbartlett1307 What about the Bakers Roll of 1924? How can I find any proof if my grandparents and great grandparents are deceased? My mother told me that her mother and her grandparents are Cherokee from east texas.
Osiyo. I have tried while over seas in the service to learn the language of my Grandmother and more importantly my Great Grandmother. My father passed and all traditions are lost. I heard a great man say that most of us are apples. We are red on the outside and white in the middle. I strive to pass on our heritage so traditions and tongue aren’t lost. I’m young and my young need this. Thank you for what you are doing. Wado
I believe our People are being called to learn their heritage. My grandmother taught me what she knew about our heritage, but a lot was lost. She taught me to pray to Creator and if Creator knows your heart is true he will put in your path what you need to learn all your hearts desire. My desire is to learn what I can on this next journey of my life. My great grandfather knew the ways and was told they were wrong, so when he converted to a Christian religion he ask God for 50 more years to preach his "new religion", he was 50 years old at the time and he lived to be 103. I have asked God for 50 more years to find my ancestors and to learn the ways that were lost. This will make me 102 and I believe Creator will honor my wish if I honor his People, my People who are Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba, and many more! Thank you Creator for all you have given me!
Lea Williams Osiyo!!! I had to look at the author to see if I wrote that. But we are different in the way it's meant to be, correct? Wado Adassligi Utsati (there i go again) south vs east dialect ;)
I have learned a little of the language but it is very hard as an adult. Being taught as a child is so much easier. I was on the reservation in NC (researching) and was trying to get acquainted with the language and learned a bit but you have to have it spoken so you know how it should should. One little mispronounced word could have a whole different meaning. Here in NJ there is no one that I know of that speaks Cherokee so I have no opportunity to use it. You can buy books and tapes etc to help you but it is very difficult. I learn only one word at a time. Don’t give up!
I'm Cherokee. I was raised in our culture, but my grandparents never taught us the language. I would love to take the online course offered through the Cherokee education institution. Thank you for the encouragement.
most of the tribes here in oklahoma, that I am aware of, hold classes to teach their members their native language, every once in a while I run across an elderly person who only speaks their native language, I think its awesome that these tribes are doing what they can to keep their culture alive
Phantastic what you're doing, mate! 🖤❤💛 Please keep it up going even if you should fail from time to time. That's part of the game. What you do is important! 🎓
Thank you Bullet, fascinated and so excited to see what you have learned, I just found your channel. My Mamaw and Papaw Buck would be proud. I surely am grateful to find you. Much love, and God bless always, from North Louisiana 🙏❤️
My name is Ayoli Tawodi/ Young Hawk in Cherokee. I've been spending a long time trying to get closer to my heritage. The Elders, one of them being the late Papa Possum, named me after I was born. My English name is Cameron though. My Grandfather's side had the Cherokee. My grandmother had Cree and my mom had Shoshone.
Gladius Gaming Siyo I can relate. Both sides. The Berring Straight and Africa! Ha! Adassligi Utsati! Wado! ( How's that for Eastern and Southern Dialects? Blaaaaaaa!!!!! it's enough to drive me sane!)
I have for 40+ years trying to learn to speak, read and write in our native tongue, but to no avail. I have been so discouraged, so sad not being able to learn our language. I'm now almost 70 years old and before I leave this world, my only desire is to learn our language. Thank you your video.
Thank you Bullet. My grandfathers mother was Cherokee. She was short like me, lol. I’ve always wanted to speak the People’s language. Now, thanks to you & MsDuncan, I will learn too. Blessings to you & yours. 🙂
Hey Bullet it's been many years since I've seen you.. I'm that half breed that won third place at the Jamestown Pow Wow. I was 17 that year and I feel like I owe you an explanation of my actions during the sneak up dance.. the boy I cooed beat me up earlier that day, said I wasnt a real indian.. so during that dance he danced without regalia and I wanted to challenge him, wich led to my actions. I've wanted to apologize to you personally all these years. You were my idol and still are to this day. Fred Bushyhead assured me that I was a real indian and to continue the red road. I have and always will. I respect you in honor.. Wado Equa for this video!
I fully understand the dilemma of language. My paternal grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian and grandfather was Scott Irish. My maternal grandparents arrived in America in 1915 from Italy. My father died when I was very young so I was raised by my mother and my Italian grandparents. My first language was Italian and I was born here in America. The Italian that I learned to speak was the Italian of the old world. In 1972 I journey to Rome Italy and phone my Italian people. They told me that I spoke the Italian of their grandfathers. Languages evolve and so does the printed word and the script in which the word is written. That said I just realized that the Italian language that I remember and identify with is over 100 years old. Imagine that! My best friend from high school Jean Black Elk is a full-blooded Lakota Ogalalla Sioux. Jean Black Elk has taught me many Lakota words and these words I cherish. I am slowly trying to learn a few words in Cherokee.
I appreciate your story. I grew up in WI. and confused, listening to my father speaking a language that I did not understand. His English was a double accent as well. I was not allowed to learn the language in fear that somebody would hurt me. This is what I was told as a child. The opposite of how you were raised but I know what you mean. Thank you for sharing.
I found out recently that my 'Great-great-great-grandma' was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. She was known as the "Old Squaw Woman". She didn't speak much English and was born in 1834, in Kentucky, and died in 1915, in Missouri. Her name was - Senna (Anna) Victoria (Victory) Nash. (I believe my parents named me Vicki, after her.) And I was told, while growing up, that she was only 1/8 Cherokee. I've always been proud to be part Cherokee, no matter how far down the line I was. And now to find out that she was not 1/8 but 100 % Cherokee. WOW! :)
We're there a lot of Cherokee who settled in Missouri?? my mother swears her birth mother who is from Missouri is 1/3 Cherokee which would make me about 1/7 or so.
If your blood swears by the Cherokee people, there is no doubt that you are Cherokee. No Cherokee man or woman would say otherwise. We are a proud people.
My great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee Indian chief wolve clan, he lived to be 106yrs. My grandma looked pure Cherokee hazel eyes, kinky long hair, very gifted woman she could read a person's life just by looking into there eyes, very powerful woman, she cured, using herbs, native American culture is beautiful! I feel so much like a Cherokee more than Hispanic. I love Cherokee people.
I have Cherokee ancestors. My side of the family seems to not want to tell that story. I want to tell my great,great,etc. Grandmother's story. I want to learn the language. I want to learn about her ways. I love your video.
Immersion classes (speaking only the language you are learning in class) will get you speaking any language pretty quick. That's how they taught my Spanish class in college and we were all laughing at the instructor's funny stories-spoken only in Spanish-very soon. .What is learned also stays with you longer even if you don't speak it every day. Although learning the roots of words and then the prefixes and suffixes which form new words is a brilliant idea.
yes a lot has been lost and I am trying to regain the language that my grandparents spoke to me. But we did not live with them we moved to Texas and all the speakers were no more. So my learning curve went out the window too. I want to learn the language and now I am teaching my grandkids the language or should I say I am deepening on your classes to help me to teach them and me.
Thank you I hope to learn my mother’s father’s people are Cherokee but my mother was never taught the language. I’ve been interested in learning and trying to figure it out since junior high
So sick of hearing so many people claiming their great grandmother is a full blooded Cherokee Indian Princess. I to was told this by my family while growing up. Was proud of it until I heard everyone else claiming the same.
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran your life goes on when your infrared so you don't want to bring though things with you that shows you were once a human animal bei g ,you might be put in hell
I am Cherokee from both my grandmother mostly and my grandfather on my mother's side. I do not know where or which part of the country this man doing the video is in but it's my understanding that in the East the Cherokee is still taught regularly. At least up till just a few years ago. It does help if you try and not speak any other language during a focused. Of time so that you can learn the language quicker and better. You have to learn to think in the language not just speak it. But surprisingly it is a syllabic language much like Sumerian and Hebrew. Doesn't sound like it but it has that pattern to it.
My grandmother spoke cherokee to all us grandchildren so i understand it but i dont speak it!! I didnt say cant speak it just never have for fear of getting hurt.
If you know anything about the Cherokee or any other tribe you would know that there is no such thing as a Indian Princess that is a white Man ideology. My Great grandmother was the daughter of a Chief, but never was referred to as a Indian Princess from The Tribe. Nor would she ever desired that. So I laughed when a person says I am the granddaughter of an Indian princess. Plus not everyone that has Indian in them comes from the chief. On my dad’s side I have Indian just from a regular Indian. Not a chief. I am just proud to have the blood of my forefathers flowing through my veins.
this is typical of what happens.the phrase "no such thing" pops up in all indigenous cultures I amsure because the media appropriate and "others tell you" It should not bet hat way.
Yeah I'm half cherokee and my aunt who is not cherokee she told me one day that her great great grandma was cherokee princess I just looked at her and nodded even though I know better
I grew up as Cherokee. My father said he did not even learn English until he was about 5 years old and starting School. My mohthe's side of the family also professed Cherokee to be of heritage. I immersed myself in Cherokee/NA culture. I learned a lot of Cherokee words and pronunciation, but not much grammar. I taught on line mini-lessons for a couple of years. The at age 61, I had a DNA test done and found that I had I had no Amerind DNA! I was (and remain) devastated by this. I downloaded my RAW DNA date and have search in vain for some error. The best I have found so far is .04% Amerind ancestry dated back to the Neolithic era. My heart will always remain Cherokee, even if my DNA does not concur.
Did you have your maternal DNA tested or your paternal DNA tested, or both? My grandfather was full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee but I only had my maternal DNA tested, which goes back through the mothers. It said I was 99% European.
My father was full blood Cherokee but my mother was not. I have my mothers peel skin as my two bothers have my dads dark skin. From a very young age i was always connected to nature and had always wanted to learn more about my Cherokee blood. My great grandmother was born on the Trail of Tears and loved to talk about her mother and father. With this being said my wanting to learn the Cherokee language calls to me. It feels like it is something i need to do; learning this language will better my understanding of nature and my family in some way. My spirit tells me to learn the language so that is what i will do.
alisha combs me too I have my mom's pale skin and my dad's dark skin my eye color is the same as my dad's I am unsure if my great grandmother had this ability too but me my dad and grandma all have Aqua eyes our eyes change alot I was gifted the spirit of the red wolf as my. and I have psychic abilities I believe because I know what s going to happen and when
@@drchristinemilly1184 That is so cool. I use to be scared to dream because I could see things before they would happen. Even with people I did not know. That is very cool that I found someone with some-what the same gift.
alisha combs yeah Alisha I hear you this is going to sound plain freaky but I ha a freak when Pres Reagan was pres and alive that he would shake hands with a Republican pres and that Pres would beat out many others he'd be the last pres scary huh
@@drchristinemilly1184 wow so crazy, the most crazy one i have had was of a girl being taken. she ran away from home walking down this road and a semi truck picked her up and it was an older couple with bad intentions for the girl. it was so horrible what i seen. i was like a ghost in in the dream floating above the girl. screaming for help trying to help her but i could not do anything for her. i cried for so long and it still haunts me.
I have a picture of my great great great grandmother that my father had framed for me and I cherish it. She only lived to be 30 years old. I feel Cherokee in my heart and soul and in every aspect of my thinking but I'm not a tribal member. My father always told me the traits came out stronger in some generations vs others because I have a lot of native American features physically. I'm in the process of writing a (would be hopeful) novel with the Cherokee theme running through it even though it's a fiction novel. I've never written book in my life but I feel a strong urging of Spirit to do this. I was moved today to learn the language and so I very much appreciate this video as I do so many other videos that wish to keep the Cherokee language alive. Namaste,Peace, Love, and Light
Connie Price Connie, do you know what you get when you cross Europeans with indigenous North Americans? You get Mexicans, specifically meztizos, which comprises 60% on Mexico's population. A group of people who do not look %100 white or indigenous, but a mixture of both. I would bet my next paycheck that if you did DNA tests on all whites in North America claiming Cherokee ancestry, you would find only a fraction actually have indigenous pedigree.
IChronicles 29:11 sorry dear. Did you know that most folks from far back as the 1700 still have Neanderthal DNA? What does that tell you! Hmmm... 1600 on up to now....
Actually my grandmother is frenchie (French) It’s my grandfather that’s my Cherokee Bloodline. I don’t know how to speak or write the language of my people but I am registered & a natural Healer/Medicean man
I have a Cherokee ancestor who was called "Old Domma". Is that a Cherokee term? No one in my family has any idea. Her name before she married was "Sarah Kenyen". She was my (3 greats) great, great, great grandmother. She married a U.S. soldier named Isaiah F. Russell that she met on the trail of tears on 11-11-1852. They lived together in central Alabama until he was killed in 1865 for refusing to fight in the Civil War. She then raised their children on her own. I understand that I don't have much Cherokee blood. I am getting older now and I trying to find out about my ancestors.
Why is every bodies "great" grandfather Or grandmother Cherokee, why not "mother or father"? How come people think Native is a died out old bloodline ?
Trey Saliento right. I always say my mother is Cherokee and shawnee. I think most people do that because of blood quantum so they start with full blood.
Trey, I have seen pictures and witnessed prayers. I have participated in life with my grandmother. She and my father died while I was serving overseas. I was t afforded the opportunity to ask the questions I now ask as a warrior, child, or man. Do you have a suggestion?
You know what, maybe some of us say that because it is TRUE. My great great grandmother and her father were deprived of their land on what is now the border of Georgia and Alabama and were forced to Oklahoma, where my great great grandmother taught school. My great great great grandfather was named THROWER. People don't "think that Native is a died out old bloodline." My great grandma was not ashamed of her heritage, she did not try to hide it. She told me what she could remember about that life when I was a girl.
Very true! My mom and dad are Cherokee but the language was lost! They raised me according to Cherokee culture and we stick out because we're a peculiar people! However the world is changing for the better and we may not stick out as badly but we'll still be different :D
My great grandfather was full blood Cherokee he was Snowbird out of North Carolina or Eastern Band Cherokee my grandfather which is half blood Cherokee was born in Alabama. I carry the Cherokee blood as well.
my great great grandmother was a cherokee medicine woman of the eastern band but i cannot get my family records back that far.......only know from oral passed down history...........would love to learn the language.....glad you all are teaching it to the youth again.............wish i could have learned as a kid..............blessings
Went thru the same thing trying to learn, and I actually went thru Cherokee Nation's class for basic. If I look at the syllaby, I can say it. Mostly because I made it into a song. Thats as far as I got tho, and it has always bothered me. I have always felt gravitated to learn more of "our" ways. Is your site still open?
Thank you for sharing! My great-great-grandmother was Cherokee. I am honored to be (even if a small amount) Cherokee. I attribute my spiritual connection to all things, spiritual or physical, to that kinship. Since a young age, I have felt a profound connection to all things. I am now, as an adult, a healer. This, I also attribute to my (small) Cherokee heritage. I am grateful! 🙏✨️
I realize this is a rhetorical and political question, but some Cherokee people do talk about their white ancestors, as well as their ancestors from other tribes.
Barbara Duncan Perhaps the Scottish traders had better quality beads and blankets to ball for, eh? Yet the Scots who were licensed by the British colonials no doubt received commissions so they probably got some 'under the table' perks. Well that's what the Cherokee got from throwing in with the English instead of the French during the first half of the 18th century.
Missikech Kechqua i think it's because so many of the original scotts-irish settlers intermarried. and a lot of people, especially in the south have cherokee ancestors, or at least they were told they had cherokee ancestors... my grandmother was cherokee, and my grandfather was half. i have found names on the dawes and miller rolls, so i promise i'm not talking out of my hat. my dad didn't like to talk about it. he grew up in ohio in the 1940's and actually caught a lot of crap, called stuff like injun and half-breed, plus his family was poor. i'm proud to have cherokee ancestry, i think that's a good thing. it means at least part of me is connected to this land, and has always been here.
Siyo, tsosdadanvtli. Adadoligi. My grandmother was full blood of the Western Cherokee Nation Band. Aniyunwiya. I, unfortunately, due to familial trauma, was removed from my culture, though taught of it and where to trace my blood. I did meet my grandmother a few times. I am no doubt native. I'm doing my best to begin turning my tongue to Tsalagi, and do all I can to learn of our stories, our traditions, that we are matriarchal, and the name of our tsosdadanvtlii and agilvgii the Keetoowah in the Carolinas. I plan to try to become enrolled as a member, myself, being that my grandmother was, my mother is half native - I am the first lightskinned in my family, but I fight for and with my culture and I want to do whatever work necessary to be embraced by my tribesmen, regardless of skin or eye color. Because my mother was exactly half Aniyunwiya/Tsalagi/"Cherokee", and half Irish (her father was FROM ireland)Ireland, so I'm the first lightskinned - she was very physically clearly mixed native. It's harder to tell on me, unless you know what to look for (cheek and jaws, nose, head shape, lips, brow, etc)
I am Cherokee, grandmother's, grandfather's.my mother,,we are Duncon,Bra.webb.ciber.on and on,,Live in East TN,, generality list many people back to where the tradition was signed in the county that in,when Cherokee ... I have my generality would love to find out more..
I found out recently I have Eastband Cherokee in me and apparently my grandmother was the daughter of a chief if anyone can point in a good direction of who i can talk to from the tribe to find more info out it would be greatly appreciated
Being Blackfoot Cherokee and Choctaw, I was told never to tell who I was for many reasons. Both sides of my family have Cherokee blood. we were brought up in a lot of the old ways but, it wasn't explained and I was never taught the language (the Choctaw or Cherokee). I'm only finding out now that I'm older that the things I've been taught are native. its like learning it all over again. I've wanted to learn the language for a long time so, Wado for this. It means EVERYTHING!
My great great great grandmother was Cherokee. She married a Scotsman...and while Ancestry DNA shows my British/Irish/Scot/Welsh DNA, it says nothing about my Native American. Keep in mind that I have my family records that prove several ancestors were Native Americans, including Pamunkey (Matoaka.) Has anyone else had this happen to them?
I'm mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN. A great uncle said, we wear the clothes of the land. Buffalo, dear, hemp or elk is not of the land today as cotton and plastic are upon our backs. The language of the stolen land today is English. To speak only English, does not steal the one drop of blood that makes you a NATIVE AMERICAN. The 1985 BLOOD QUANTUM LAW excludes 10s of millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, does not steal we mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN one drop of blood. We are still here. Don't worry about the clothes upon your back or the words of your mouth, you are still NATIVE AMERICAN. Not all NATIVE AMERICANS stuck feathers up their ads and danced around like turkeys. The invaders want to see the feathers and those of us who the 1985 blood quantum law eliminates 10s millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, we will not dance the dance of turkeys.
Wado! For the video. It was does explain how confusing learning Cherokee is for those who first language isn't Cherokee. I had three great grandparents who were Cherokee and One great grandparent that was Comanche but these mixed with white settlers down through the line, so my first language was English. Trying to learn Cherokee has not been easy. There are times when I wished I had learned the Native tongues first than English. Also, I wish I'd been raised more with my Native heritage than the white. I can say that since my mom gave me my Cherokee name Pretty/Beautiful Red Bird...Red Bird for short...I am coming to prefer it. My husband (who is European descent) was the first to really start calling me Red Bird.
Im an enrolled member of Ebci Im from Big Cove The loop Im from the pheasant family I have a question Do enrolled member have to pay for theses courses?
When i was in school I didnt pay attention in Cherokee language but now that im out of school and Much older I wanna Learn to speak more then just colors numbers animals I wanna speak sentences Fluently carry on a conversation So do ebci enrolled have to pay ?
My blood is Cherokee my grandmother when her flesh was alive taught me the Cherokee way she was very poor lady living in Tennessee but she would go the farms and pick strawberries she always say never hate the white man that the earth is one with us and I was 7 when she breathed her last breath she said my little flower girl my spirit will blow in the wind one day our land will be free for the buffalo to roam and that stay with me all my days on this earth
I was never taught I am also dyslexic I see words backwards or see a word in a word that’s not their even numbers say way my pronouncing is awful I had to take a speech class in 1st grade to pronounce words I couldn’t say I still have trouble saying words correctly would it be hard for me to learn it?
People may talk but I just show. Being a tribal member since birth.. as with my mother and my grandfather and his mother and etc.. it's all recorded and written down back to my full blood Cherokee family. It's sad to see people wanting go deny us mutts. As it is racist and bigoted. Why do people hate those who appreciate and want to be a part of them? My "white" isn't who I am.. it's only a part of who I am . my Cherokee and my cajun french roots are me and both are celebrated in me because that is all I can be. I love my tribal and I love my french roots. There is no room for hate in me.
I was blessed enough to be around my great grandmother. She was born in the 1800s, she would teach us different words in the Cherokee language. I am still learning.
I am Cherokee, although I am not enrolled and I have not grown up in the culture my biggest wish is to help my ancestors legacy to live forever. So I am studying the language. Hopefully one day I can have tribal membership and help even more.
How's it going?
Same. I talk to my friend. She is enrolled.
same
In order to be "enrolled" your ancestors by 1890 had to be registered on the Dawes Rolls (or earlier rolls) and they had to live on a reservation. You have to be able to prove descent from ancestors on these rolls to gain Tribal membership. And any Indians who refused to go to a reservation by this time lost, according to the US gov't, their Indian Tribal citizenship.
@@karenbartlett1307 What about the Bakers Roll of 1924? How can I find any proof if my grandparents and great grandparents are deceased? My mother told me that her mother and her grandparents are Cherokee from east texas.
Osiyo. I have tried while over seas in the service to learn the language of my Grandmother and more importantly my Great Grandmother. My father passed and all traditions are lost. I heard a great man say that most of us are apples. We are red on the outside and white in the middle. I strive to pass on our heritage so traditions and tongue aren’t lost. I’m young and my young need this. Thank you for what you are doing.
Wado
Bullet, my cousin! GREAT work u r doin! Keep it goin!
I'm taking lessons to learn.and I can feel it in my heart
I believe our People are being called to learn their heritage. My grandmother taught me what she knew about our heritage, but a lot was lost. She taught me to pray to Creator and if Creator knows your heart is true he will put in your path what you need to learn all your hearts desire. My desire is to learn what I can on this next journey of my life. My great grandfather knew the ways and was told they were wrong, so when he converted to a Christian religion he ask God for 50 more years to preach his "new religion", he was 50 years old at the time and he lived to be 103. I have asked God for 50 more years to find my ancestors and to learn the ways that were lost. This will make me 102 and I believe Creator will honor my wish if I honor his People, my People who are Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba, and many more! Thank you Creator for all you have given me!
Lea Williams Osiyo!!! I had to look at the author to see if I wrote that. But we are different in the way it's meant to be, correct? Wado Adassligi Utsati
(there i go again) south vs east dialect ;)
@NiGi metoo
That beautiful ♥️♥️♥️
I have Cherokee ancestry, and I've been wanting to learn the language. This sounds very promising in helping me achieve my goal.
I have learned a little of the language but it is very hard as an adult. Being taught as a child is so much easier. I was on the reservation in NC (researching) and was trying to get acquainted with the language and learned a bit but you have to have it spoken so you know how it should should. One little mispronounced word could have a whole different meaning. Here in NJ there is no one that I know of that speaks Cherokee so I have no opportunity to use it. You can buy books and tapes etc to help you but it is very difficult. I learn only one word at a time. Don’t give up!
I'm Cherokee. I was raised in our culture, but my grandparents never taught us the language. I would love to take the online course offered through the Cherokee education institution. Thank you for the encouragement.
most of the tribes here in oklahoma, that I am aware of, hold classes to teach their members their native language, every once in a while I run across an elderly person who only speaks their native language, I think its awesome that these tribes are doing what they can to keep their culture alive
Phantastic what you're doing, mate! 🖤❤💛 Please keep it up going even if you should fail from time to time. That's part of the game. What you do is important! 🎓
Thank you , I love how your heart comes thru this video.
Thank you Bullet, fascinated and so excited to see what you have learned, I just found your channel. My Mamaw and Papaw Buck would be proud. I surely am grateful to find you. Much love, and God bless always, from North Louisiana 🙏❤️
My name is Ayoli Tawodi/ Young Hawk in Cherokee. I've been spending a long time trying to get closer to my heritage. The Elders, one of them being the late Papa Possum, named me after I was born. My English name is Cameron though. My Grandfather's side had the Cherokee. My grandmother had Cree and my mom had Shoshone.
Gladius Gaming Siyo I can relate. Both sides. The Berring Straight and Africa! Ha! Adassligi Utsati! Wado! ( How's that for Eastern and Southern Dialects? Blaaaaaaa!!!!! it's enough to drive me sane!)
I have for 40+ years trying to learn to speak, read and write in our native tongue, but to no avail. I have been so discouraged, so sad not being able to learn our language. I'm now almost 70 years old and before I leave this world, my only desire is to learn our language. Thank you your video.
Thank you Bullet. My grandfathers mother was Cherokee. She was short like me, lol. I’ve always wanted to speak the People’s language. Now, thanks to you & MsDuncan, I will learn too. Blessings to you & yours. 🙂
Hey Bullet it's been many years since I've seen you.. I'm that half breed that won third place at the Jamestown Pow Wow. I was 17 that year and I feel like I owe you an explanation of my actions during the sneak up dance.. the boy I cooed beat me up earlier that day, said I wasnt a real indian.. so during that dance he danced without regalia and I wanted to challenge him, wich led to my actions. I've wanted to apologize to you personally all these years. You were my idol and still are to this day. Fred Bushyhead assured me that I was a real indian and to continue the red road. I have and always will. I respect you in honor.. Wado Equa for this video!
this will help me so much..thank you.
I am trying to learn my grandmother native young. This video has helped me immensely.
Wado Standingdeer. I would love to spend time speaking with you, you're so calm and your voice is soothing! I would love to speak Tsalagi one day.
Oh man I need this. My great grandmother was the last person in my family who could speak fluent Cherokee.
I fully understand the dilemma of language. My paternal grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian and grandfather was Scott Irish. My maternal grandparents arrived in America in 1915 from Italy. My father died when I was very young so I was raised by my mother and my Italian grandparents. My first language was Italian and I was born here in America. The Italian that I learned to speak was the Italian of the old world. In 1972 I journey to Rome Italy and phone my Italian people. They told me that I spoke the Italian of their grandfathers. Languages evolve and so does the printed word and the script in which the word is written. That said I just realized that the Italian language that I remember and identify with is over 100 years old. Imagine that! My best friend from high school Jean Black Elk is a full-blooded Lakota Ogalalla Sioux. Jean Black Elk has taught me many Lakota words and these words I cherish. I am slowly trying to learn a few words in Cherokee.
Thank you so much. I'm so grateful. I will begin learning asap. I'm so proud to be Cherokee.
I'm mostly Cherokee my grandfather is full Cherokee and my great grandmother is fully Cherokee
I appreciate your story. I grew up in WI. and confused, listening to my father speaking a language that I did not understand. His English was a double accent as well. I was not allowed to learn the language in fear that somebody would hurt me. This is what I was told as a child. The opposite of how you were raised but I know what you mean. Thank you for sharing.
Sherri Jones this made me cry... i was so sad....
Natives are so beautiful, I feel our spirit within me and I am proud❤️
I found out recently that my 'Great-great-great-grandma' was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. She was known as the "Old Squaw Woman". She didn't speak much English and was born in 1834, in Kentucky, and died in 1915, in Missouri. Her name was - Senna (Anna) Victoria (Victory) Nash. (I believe my parents named me Vicki, after her.) And I was told, while growing up, that she was only 1/8 Cherokee. I've always been proud to be part Cherokee, no matter how far down the line I was. And now to find out that she was not 1/8 but 100 % Cherokee. WOW! :)
We're there a lot of Cherokee who settled in Missouri?? my mother swears her birth mother who is from Missouri is 1/3 Cherokee which would make me about 1/7 or so.
If your blood swears by the Cherokee people, there is no doubt that you are Cherokee. No Cherokee man or woman would say otherwise. We are a proud people.
Thank you so very much! I have been praying for this for 4 years 🙏 😢
My great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee Indian chief wolve clan, he lived to be 106yrs. My grandma looked pure Cherokee hazel eyes, kinky long hair, very gifted woman she could read a person's life just by looking into there eyes, very powerful woman, she cured, using herbs, native American culture is beautiful! I feel so much like a Cherokee more than Hispanic. I love Cherokee people.
I have Cherokee ancestors. My side of the family seems to not want to tell that story. I want to tell my great,great,etc. Grandmother's story. I want to learn the language. I want to learn about her ways. I love your video.
My great grandfather was Cherokee! Were a proud people and I'm trying to learn my peoples language.
Immersion classes (speaking only the language you are learning in class) will get you speaking any language pretty quick. That's how they taught my Spanish class in college and we were all laughing at the instructor's funny stories-spoken only in Spanish-very soon. .What is learned also stays with you longer even if you don't speak it every day. Although learning the roots of words and then the prefixes and suffixes which form new words is a brilliant idea.
my grandmother is cherokee! i wish i could meet her :(
Victoria H you will some day!!!!
yes a lot has been lost and I am trying to regain the language that my grandparents spoke to me. But we did not live with them we moved to Texas and all the speakers were no more. So my learning curve went out the window too. I want to learn the language and now I am teaching my grandkids the language or should I say I am deepening on your classes to help me to teach them and me.
Thank you, Bullet. I hope that your struggle ceases and your learning becomes easier.
Thank you I hope to learn my mother’s father’s people are Cherokee but my mother was never taught the language. I’ve been interested in learning and trying to figure it out since junior high
Thanks for the video 👍🏻🇨🇱
Yes two of my grandmothers are Cherokee. My name is running deer and they called me bullet when I was 15. I am not enrolled currently.
Wonderful I have same problem but I learned English as a child almost same way in patterns. Please teach me more
So sick of hearing so many people claiming their great grandmother is a full blooded Cherokee Indian Princess. I to was told this by my family while growing up. Was proud of it until I heard everyone else claiming the same.
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True mine was a normal (50%)Cherokee lady whose family moved from Illinois to Missouri.
Hi Bullet! Spooky here. I came across these you tube videos trying to learn some phrases and saw you in the thumbnail. Keep up the good work!
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran your life goes on when your infrared so you don't want to bring though things with you that shows you were once a human animal bei g ,you might be put in hell
I am Cherokee from both my grandmother mostly and my grandfather on my mother's side. I do not know where or which part of the country this man doing the video is in but it's my understanding that in the East the Cherokee is still taught regularly. At least up till just a few years ago. It does help if you try and not speak any other language during a focused. Of time so that you can learn the language quicker and better. You have to learn to think in the language not just speak it. But surprisingly it is a syllabic language much like Sumerian and Hebrew. Doesn't sound like it but it has that pattern to it.
My grandmother spoke cherokee to all us grandchildren so i understand it but i dont speak it!! I didnt say cant speak it just never have for fear of getting hurt.
If you know anything about the Cherokee or any other tribe you would know that there is no such thing as a Indian Princess that is a white Man ideology. My Great grandmother was the daughter of a Chief, but never was referred to as a Indian Princess from The Tribe. Nor would she ever desired that. So I laughed when a person says I am the granddaughter of an Indian princess. Plus not everyone that has Indian in them comes from the chief. On my dad’s side I have Indian just from a regular Indian. Not a chief. I am just proud to have the blood of my forefathers flowing through my veins.
So when I hear someone say their ancestor was an Indian princess, I know they paid their $5.
this is typical of what happens.the phrase "no such thing" pops up in all indigenous cultures I amsure because the media appropriate and "others tell you" It should not bet hat way.
Yeah I'm half cherokee and my aunt who is not cherokee she told me one day that her great great grandma was cherokee princess I just looked at her and nodded even though I know better
Well I'm not a princess anymore. I'm an Empress. I'm a chief. I'm a chef. I smoke.
I'm a queen because I have children.
Peace. Love. 😊 Happiness 😊.
That's truly an honor.
Osiyo Unalii I am Rain pleased to have found you. Teach more please
He's so nice. Wow.
I grew up as Cherokee. My father said he did not even learn English until he was about 5 years old and starting School. My mohthe's side of the family also professed Cherokee to be of heritage. I immersed myself in Cherokee/NA culture. I learned a lot of Cherokee words and pronunciation, but not much grammar. I taught on line mini-lessons for a couple of years. The at age 61, I had a DNA test done and found that I had I had no Amerind DNA! I was (and remain) devastated by this. I downloaded my RAW DNA date and have search in vain for some error. The best I have found so far is .04% Amerind ancestry dated back to the Neolithic era. My heart will always remain Cherokee, even if my DNA does not concur.
Did you have your maternal DNA tested or your paternal DNA tested, or both? My grandfather was full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee but I only had my maternal DNA tested, which goes back through the mothers. It said I was 99% European.
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I’m Cherokee and Shawnee maybe Ojibwa as well. I have tried learning each of their language but it is a difficult task
Thank you sir!
My father was full blood Cherokee but my mother was not. I have my mothers peel skin as my two bothers have my dads dark skin. From a very young age i was always connected to nature and had always wanted to learn more about my Cherokee blood. My great grandmother was born on the Trail of Tears and loved to talk about her mother and father. With this being said my wanting to learn the Cherokee language calls to me. It feels like it is something i need to do; learning this language will better my understanding of nature and my family in some way. My spirit tells me to learn the language so that is what i will do.
alisha combs me too I have my mom's pale skin and my dad's dark skin my eye color is the same as my dad's I am unsure if my great grandmother had this ability too but me my dad and grandma all have Aqua eyes our eyes change alot I was gifted the spirit of the red wolf as my. and I have psychic abilities I believe because I know what s going to happen and when
@@drchristinemilly1184 That is so cool. I use to be scared to dream because I could see things before they would happen. Even with people I did not know. That is very cool that I found someone with some-what the same gift.
alisha combs yeah Alisha I hear you this is going to sound plain freaky but I ha a freak when Pres Reagan was pres and alive that he would shake hands with a Republican pres and that Pres would beat out many others he'd be the last pres scary huh
@@drchristinemilly1184 wow so crazy, the most crazy one i have had was of a girl being taken. she ran away from home walking down this road and a semi truck picked her up and it was an older couple with bad intentions for the girl. it was so horrible what i seen. i was like a ghost in in the dream floating above the girl. screaming for help trying to help her but i could not do anything for her. i cried for so long and it still haunts me.
alisha combs 😎
I have a picture of my great great great grandmother that my father had framed for me and I cherish it. She only lived to be 30 years old. I feel Cherokee in my heart and soul and in every aspect of my thinking but I'm not a tribal member. My father always told me the traits came out stronger in some generations vs others because I have a lot of native American features physically. I'm in the process of writing a (would be hopeful) novel with the Cherokee theme running through it even though it's a fiction novel. I've never written book in my life but I feel a strong urging of Spirit to do this. I was moved today to learn the language and so I very much appreciate this video as I do so many other videos that wish to keep the Cherokee language alive. Namaste,Peace, Love, and Light
My Enisi taught me basics but I really need to try harder to keep it up
Why is it that everyone has a Cherokee grandma and no one has a Cherokee granpa?
Connie Price
Connie, do you know what you get when you cross Europeans with indigenous North Americans? You get Mexicans, specifically meztizos, which comprises 60% on Mexico's population. A group of people who do not look %100 white or indigenous, but a mixture of both.
I would bet my next paycheck that if you did DNA tests on all whites in North America claiming Cherokee ancestry, you would find only a fraction actually have indigenous pedigree.
IChronicles 29:11 sorry dear. Did you know that most folks from far back as the 1700 still have Neanderthal DNA? What does that tell you! Hmmm... 1600 on up to now....
Connie Price who wrote Hebrews? Just asking....
IChronicles 29:11 Bwahahahaha. Cuz they ran off or their women killed them! Ha just kidding.
Gracie G Carson Doughty Ok Pocahontas.
Actually my grandmother is frenchie (French) It’s my grandfather that’s my Cherokee Bloodline.
I don’t know how to speak or write the language of my people but I am registered & a natural Healer/Medicean man
I have a Cherokee ancestor who was called "Old Domma". Is that a Cherokee term? No one in my family has any idea.
Her name before she married was "Sarah Kenyen". She was my (3 greats) great, great, great grandmother. She married a U.S. soldier named Isaiah F. Russell that she met on the trail of tears on 11-11-1852. They lived together in central Alabama until he was killed in 1865 for refusing to fight in the Civil War. She then raised their children on her own.
I understand that I don't have much Cherokee blood. I am getting older now and I trying to find out about my ancestors.
I want to learn more
Why is every bodies "great" grandfather Or grandmother Cherokee, why not "mother or father"? How come people think Native is a died out old bloodline ?
Trey Saliento right.
I always say my mother is Cherokee and shawnee.
I think most people do that because of blood quantum so they start with full blood.
Trey, I have seen pictures and witnessed prayers. I have participated in life with my grandmother. She and my father died while I was serving overseas. I was t afforded the opportunity to ask the questions I now ask as a warrior, child, or man. Do you have a suggestion?
You know what, maybe some of us say that because it is TRUE. My great great grandmother and her father were deprived of their land on what is now the border of Georgia and Alabama and were forced to Oklahoma, where my great great grandmother taught school. My great great great grandfather was named THROWER.
People don't "think that Native is a died out old bloodline." My great grandma was not ashamed of her heritage, she did not try to hide it. She told me what she could remember about that life when I was a girl.
There are too many wannabe Cherokee or Native American Indian.
Almost all of them aren’t Native American Indian descendants.
Very true! My mom and dad are Cherokee but the language was lost! They raised me according to Cherokee culture and we stick out because we're a peculiar people! However the world is changing for the better and we may not stick out as badly but we'll still be different :D
My great grandfather was full blood Cherokee he was Snowbird out of North Carolina or Eastern Band Cherokee my grandfather which is half blood Cherokee was born in Alabama. I carry the Cherokee blood as well.
my great great grandmother was a cherokee medicine woman of the eastern band but i cannot get my family records back that far.......only know from oral passed down history...........would love to learn the language.....glad you all are teaching it to the youth again.............wish i could have learned as a kid..............blessings
Went thru the same thing trying to learn, and I actually went thru Cherokee Nation's class for basic. If I look at the syllaby, I can say it. Mostly because I made it into a song. Thats as far as I got tho, and it has always bothered me. I have always felt gravitated to learn more of "our" ways. Is your site still open?
Thank you ❤️
Bullet, not sure if you are seeing, comments on this old video. Just know You are in prayers.
Thank you for sharing! My great-great-grandmother was Cherokee. I am honored to be (even if a small amount) Cherokee. I attribute my spiritual connection to all things, spiritual or physical, to that kinship. Since a young age, I have felt a profound connection to all things. I am now, as an adult, a healer. This, I also attribute to my (small) Cherokee heritage. I am grateful! 🙏✨️
Im of Cherokee decent and would love to learn
How come one never hears a Cherokee saying - "My great grandmother was a Scottish princess"?
I realize this is a rhetorical and political question, but some Cherokee people do talk about their white ancestors, as well as their ancestors from other tribes.
Barbara Duncan Perhaps the Scottish traders had better quality beads and blankets to ball for, eh? Yet the Scots who were licensed by the British colonials no doubt received commissions so they probably got some 'under the table' perks. Well that's what the Cherokee got from throwing in with the English instead of the French during the first half of the 18th century.
Missikech Kechqua i think it's because so many of the original scotts-irish settlers intermarried. and a lot of people, especially in the south have cherokee ancestors, or at least they were told they had cherokee ancestors... my grandmother was cherokee, and my grandfather was half. i have found names on the dawes and miller rolls, so i promise i'm not talking out of my hat. my dad didn't like to talk about it. he grew up in ohio in the 1940's and actually caught a lot of crap, called stuff like injun and half-breed, plus his family was poor. i'm proud to have cherokee ancestry, i think that's a good thing. it means at least part of me is connected to this land, and has always been here.
Don't worry so much about the past. Jackson was crazy. Don't blame the Scotch.
Missikech Kechqua bwahahaha! Beautiful!!!wado
I am a Cherokee, I don't want money, just own I am Cherokee!
Siyo, tsosdadanvtli. Adadoligi.
My grandmother was full blood of the Western Cherokee Nation Band. Aniyunwiya.
I, unfortunately, due to familial trauma, was removed from my culture, though taught of it and where to trace my blood. I did meet my grandmother a few times. I am no doubt native.
I'm doing my best to begin turning my tongue to Tsalagi, and do all I can to learn of our stories, our traditions, that we are matriarchal, and the name of our tsosdadanvtlii and agilvgii the Keetoowah in the Carolinas.
I plan to try to become enrolled as a member, myself, being that my grandmother was, my mother is half native - I am the first lightskinned in my family, but I fight for and with my culture and I want to do whatever work necessary to be embraced by my tribesmen, regardless of skin or eye color. Because my mother was exactly half Aniyunwiya/Tsalagi/"Cherokee", and half Irish (her father was FROM ireland)Ireland, so I'm the first lightskinned - she was very physically clearly mixed native. It's harder to tell on me, unless you know what to look for (cheek and jaws, nose, head shape, lips, brow, etc)
I learned that I can read other things too that I never knew when I was younger by just looking at it😉
My great grandfather on my dads side was full blood Cherokee
I am Cherokee, grandmother's, grandfather's.my mother,,we are Duncon,Bra.webb.ciber.on and on,,Live in East TN,, generality list many people back to where the tradition was signed in the county that in,when Cherokee ... I have my generality would love to find out more..
I found out recently I have Eastband Cherokee in me and apparently my grandmother was the daughter of a chief if anyone can point in a good direction of who i can talk to from the tribe to find more info out it would be greatly appreciated
I'm Cherokee through my grandpa and my grandpa on my mom's side though I'm not officially recognized by a tribe
My great grandmother is cherokee
Oseyo! Maybe there is hope for me yet!
Wado, Bullet & Barbara!
Spell it Osiyo..not Oseyo
Glad you have an interest in our Language 👍
Fascinating. So this should also be a method for six Nations languages?
Being Blackfoot Cherokee and Choctaw, I was told never to tell who I was for many reasons. Both sides of my family have Cherokee blood. we were brought up in a lot of the old ways but, it wasn't explained and I was never taught the language (the Choctaw or Cherokee). I'm only finding out now that I'm older that the things I've been taught are native. its like learning it all over again. I've wanted to learn the language for a long time so, Wado for this. It means EVERYTHING!
My grandmother was half Cherokee
There is Standing Deer in New York??
Wado oginalii 🙏
My grandmother was 1/2 Cherokee.
i wish i could learn it
How
Can you have the nerves to unlike 🙃 this video?
I want to learn how do I get this
What is the method/pattern
Cool.
THANK YOU HOW DO I GET HOLD OF THIS SYSTEM OF LEARNING CHEROKEE
It's here on u tube
My Grandfather!!!
How do you pronounce so no ki? The word for blue?
My great great great grandmother was Cherokee. She married a Scotsman...and while Ancestry DNA shows my British/Irish/Scot/Welsh DNA, it says nothing about my Native American. Keep in mind that I have my family records that prove several ancestors were Native Americans, including Pamunkey (Matoaka.) Has anyone else had this happen to them?
THE PRODIGAL ESOTERIC
Yes it’s because dna is not evenly distributed after half bloods
Same my grandmother half Cherokee but says I'm only2% ,
I do my best! I miss home Oklahoma..its not as hard as we make it. We have to understand! My papa said!
I'm mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN. A great uncle said, we wear the clothes of the land. Buffalo, dear, hemp or elk is not of the land today as cotton and plastic are upon our backs. The language of the stolen land today is English. To speak only English, does not steal the one drop of blood that makes you a NATIVE AMERICAN. The 1985 BLOOD QUANTUM LAW excludes 10s of millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, does not steal we mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN one drop of blood. We are still here. Don't worry about the clothes upon your back or the words of your mouth, you are still NATIVE AMERICAN. Not all NATIVE AMERICANS stuck feathers up their ads and danced around like turkeys. The invaders want to see the feathers and those of us who the 1985 blood quantum law eliminates 10s millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, we will not dance the dance of turkeys.
Sending love to my 11th grandma people I'm learning how to speak my Grammaw's language
Wado! For the video. It was does explain how confusing learning Cherokee is for those who first language isn't Cherokee. I had three great grandparents who were Cherokee and One great grandparent that was Comanche but these mixed with white settlers down through the line, so my first language was English. Trying to learn Cherokee has not been easy. There are times when I wished I had learned the Native tongues first than English. Also, I wish I'd been raised more with my Native heritage than the white. I can say that since my mom gave me my Cherokee name Pretty/Beautiful Red Bird...Red Bird for short...I am coming to prefer it. My husband (who is European descent) was the first to really start calling me Red Bird.
Im an enrolled member of Ebci Im from Big Cove The loop Im from the pheasant family I have a question Do enrolled member have to pay for theses courses?
When i was in school I didnt pay attention in Cherokee language but now that im out of school and Much older I wanna Learn to speak more then just colors numbers animals I wanna speak sentences Fluently carry on a conversation So do ebci enrolled have to pay ?
Osda Wado!
I was told I have ancestors who are Cherokee but I haven’t done a dna test
I am not Cherokee, but I want to learn. Wado..
My blood is Cherokee my grandmother when her flesh was alive taught me the Cherokee way she was very poor lady living in Tennessee but she would go the farms and pick strawberries she always say never hate the white man that the earth is one with us and I was 7 when she breathed her last breath she said my little flower girl my spirit will blow in the wind one day our land will be free for the buffalo to roam and that stay with me all my days on this earth
I was never taught I am also dyslexic I see words backwards or see a word in a word that’s not their even numbers say way my pronouncing is awful I had to take a speech class in 1st grade to pronounce words I couldn’t say I still have trouble saying words correctly would it be hard for me to learn it?
The use of better education is very important. It could depend on who you are as far as any of this goes.
People may talk but I just show. Being a tribal member since birth.. as with my mother and my grandfather and his mother and etc.. it's all recorded and written down back to my full blood Cherokee family. It's sad to see people wanting go deny us mutts. As it is racist and bigoted. Why do people hate those who appreciate and want to be a part of them? My "white" isn't who I am.. it's only a part of who I am . my Cherokee and my cajun french roots are me and both are celebrated in me because that is all I can be. I love my tribal and I love my french roots. There is no room for hate in me.