Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

[Hellbilly]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

TAHLEQUAH — Officials wanted literally everything to be written in Cherokee at the tribe’s new $20 million language center — restroom signs, office names, even the “wash your hands before returning to work” posters next to the sinks.
But Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. wondered about the “exit” signs.
“We could do them in Cherokee,” Hoskin said, “but it becomes a safety issue.”
Even among tribal citizens, only a fraction of visitors would know what the signs meant.
After giving it some thought, however, Cherokee officials found a way to avoid compromising on the no-English-allowed rule. Instead of spelling out the word, the facility’s exit signs use a pictogram of a human figure running through a doorway.

One step at a time.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

One step at a time.

So you're going to stop taking government money too?

 

[Hellbilly]

So you're going to stop taking government money too?

I don’t take any now so…

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Good. These languages and cultures should not be lost. The Navajo do much the same thing.

 

[AMart]

Was Billy Jack a Cherokee?

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

I don’t take any now so…

Your deflection is noted.

 

[Hellbilly]

Your deflection is noted.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

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Yesterday you claimed to be Native American and also Black

There is a problem. Sorta like white Hispanics

 

[whitehall]

It's good that Native American tribes preserve their language and culture after what was done to them in the late 19th and early 20tyh century where Indian kids were practically kidnapped and stripped of their heritage. I just hope I'm not paying for it.

 

[struth]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

One step at a time.

English is a foreign language in the Cherokee Nation.

 

[EMH]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

One step at a time.

Fail to see how that $20 million helps Cherokees.

Starting a Cherokee themed restaurant concept would provide jobs and stock ownership and path to prosperity for Cherokees proud of their heritage.

This is pissing away $20 million whining about language....

 

[Hellbilly]

Yesterday you claimed to be Native American and also Black

There is a problem. Sorta like white Hispanics

You were actually talking to two different people. One black one Native.

 

[SaxonJackson]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

One step at a time.

Wonderful waste of money. I'm packing up right now to go visit. NOT

 

[Hellbilly]

Wonderful waste of money. I'm packing up right now to go visit. NOT

You are not welcome.

 

[AMart]

Yesterday you claimed to be Native American and also Black

There is a problem. Sorta like white Hispanics

He did? LOL where is the link.

 

[Moonglow]

English is a foreign language in the Cherokee Nation.

Not really.

 

[Moonglow]

Most Cherokees look like WASPs because of interracial breeding

 

[SaxonJackson]

You are not welcome.

I wouldn't attend if they begged me!!

 

[bodecea]

Cherokee Nation opens $20 million immersion facility where English becomes a foreign language

Built inside a former casino building near the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah, an hour southeast of Tulsa, the Durbin Feeling Language Center will open Tuesday.

tulsaworld.com

One step at a time.

Good....lots of parallels with Gaelic speakers in the Scottish Highlands, Welsh speakers in Wales, and Gaelic Irish speakers in Ireland.....taking back their language that was suppressed for so long.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

He did? LOL where is the link.

It's somewhere, I don't remember.

Bottom line he's a fraud