My
name is Joshua Webster and I am 1/4 degree of Cherokee blood.
I am registered with the "Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma." My Cherokee name is,
Wa-no-da (\Zc.) I have already published a Cherokee
reference booklet entitled, "Introduction to
Conversational Cherokee." I am currently
working on a Cherokee curriculum which will provide words and
phrases used throughout daily life by Cherokee people. This
course will also provide cassette tapes that provide
listening information so that you can hear the pronunciation
of the words and phrases and then repeat them correctly. The
booklet will show the "formal" Cherokee in English
phonetics and then the native speaker recorded on the
cassette tapes will give the pronunciation of the words and
phrases in "conversational" Cherokee. I will be
attending, Northeastern State University in Tahlequah,
Oklahoma where I will be getting my degree in education.
After I receive my degree I plan to earn my "Cherokee
Language Teachers Certification." I have wanted nothing
more that to be a Cherokee language teacher. I beleive that
with the efforts of Cherokee people we can bring our language
and culture back ten times as great and keep in our souls
forever more!
