Rising Above: Language Revitalization in the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians

by Benjamin E. Frey

Today there are roughly two hundred first-language Cherokee speakers among the seventeen thousand citizens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina. In 2019 the United Keetoowah Band, the Cherokee Nation, and the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians declared a state of emergency for the Cherokee language.

In Rising Above Eastern Band Cherokee citizen Benjamin E. Frey chronicles his odyssey of being introduced to the Cherokee...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496235703
• ISBN13: 9781496235701
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 240 Pages