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News Release Cherokee Nation The Cherokee Nation is recognizing Friday, October 15 as “Sequoyah Day” in honor of the 200th anniversary of Sequoyah’s creation
KANSAS, Okla. â A fluent Cherokee speaker and longtime translator, Anna Sixkiller has become a caretaker for the language she holds dear. âThat is my language. Itâs my first language,â said Sixkiller, a Cherokee National Treasure since 1991. âItâs what I work with every day. I really think about a lot of things when I translate something â whoâs going to be looking at it and how theyâre going to look at it, how theyâre going to feel, what theyâre going to say. I want to put the right words in there so they can understand.â For more t...