Also, when a family has the surname A further problem encountered in transliterating Cherokee is that there are some pairs of different Cherokee words that transliterate to the same word in the Latin script. Some sources claim he went with his mother, though there is no confirmed date for her death. Tuesday, January 18, 2022. But there is no such language The syllabary displays neither tone nor vowel length, but as stated earlier regarding the paucity of minimal pairs, real cases of ambiguity are rare. /s/ is realized as [] or even [] in North Carolina dialects. A missionary working in northern Alaska read about it and created a syllabary, what has become known as Cree syllabics. [28][29] His wife is said to have burned his initial work, believing it to be witchcraft. "Iroquoian Languages". Cherokee speakers from across the United States gathered with Cherokee Nation leaders for the grand opening of the tribe's new, historic $20 million Durbin Feeling Language Center. Dragging Canoe ( , pronounced Tsiyu Gansini, c. 1738 - February 29, 1792) was a Cherokee red (or war) chief who led a band of Cherokee warriors who resisted colonists and United States settlers in the Upper South. Cherokee was added to the Unicode Standard in September, 1999 with the release of version 3.0. ale sagwu gesv junilvwisdanedi anahldinvdlv adanvdo gvhdi. In 1821, he completed his independent creation of the Cherokee syllabary, making reading and writing in Cherokee possible. [45] A second campus was added in November 2021, when the school purchased Greasy School in Greasy, Oklahoma, located in southern Adair County ten miles south of Stilwell. The Cherokee nation in the 21st century is trying to integrate this language into people's daily lives. Omissions? Lounsbury, Floyd G. (1978). Today, there are an estimated 2,000 first language Cherokee Speakers, with several thousand more, considered beginner or proficient speakers through the tribe's language . The other four are contour tones (rising, falling, lowfall, highrise) and appear on long vowels only.[72]. Another orthography, used in Holmes (1977), doesn't distinguish plain stops from aspirated stops for /tsa/ and /kw/ and uses ts and qu for both modes. Although he maintained his store, he both stopped drinking and stopped selling alcohol. It occurs only in a dozen native words. Sources differ as to the true identity of Sequoyah's father. Though use of the Cherokee syllabary declined after many of the Cherokee were forcibly removed to Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma, it has survived in private correspondence, renderings of the Bible, and descriptions of Indian medicine[33] and now can be found in books and on the internet among other places. This syllabic writing inspired other indigenous groups across Canada to adapt the syllabics to create writing for their languages. During the American Revolution and afterward, Dragging Canoe's forces were sometimes joined by Upper Muskogee, Chickasaw, Shawnee, and Indians from other tribes . Accordingly, about 1809 he began working to develop a system of writing for the Cherokees, believing that increased knowledge would help them maintain their independence. Sequoyahs name (spelled Sequoia) was given to the giant redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) of the Pacific Coast and the big trees (Sequoiadendron giganteum) of the Sierra Nevada range. [47], In November of 2022, the tribe opened a $20 million language center in a 52,000-square-foot building near its headquarters in Tahlequah. This only pushed his determination to create a reading and writing system for the Cherokee language. He was one of the "Old Settler" delegates that went to Washington, D.C. to sign the treaty. [11] In 1986, the literacy rate for first language speakers was 1520% who could read and 5% who could write, according to the 1986 Cherokee Heritage Center. Montgomery-Anderson, 2008, pp. Man'ysh). Print. However, in more recent technical literature, length of vowels can actually be indicated using a colon, and other disambiguation methods for consonants (somewhat like the Japanese, There is no regular rule for representing. Examples: If the Latin script is parsed from left to right, longest match first, then without special provisions, the back conversion would be wrong for the latter. We, the undersigned Cherokees, direct from the Spanish Dominions, do hereby certify that George Guess of the Cherokee Nation, Arkansas, departed this life in the town of San-fernando in the month of August, 1843, and his son Chusaleta is at this time on the Brasos River, Texas, about thirty miles above the falls, and he intends returning home this fall. [27] At first he sought to create a character for each word in the language. Due to native customs, Sequoyah learned everything from his mother like the Cherokee language and his first job of a tradesman.[7]. In the subsequent millennia, the Northern Iroquoian and Southern Iroquoian would be separated by various Algonquin and Siouan speaking peoples as linguistic, religious, social and technological practices from the Algonquin to the north and east and the Siouans to the west from the Ohio Valley would come to be practiced by peoples in the Chesapeake region, as well as parts of the Carolinas. After completing the lessons, Sequoyah wrote a dictated letter to each student, and read a dictated response. With the Durbin Feeling Language Actproposed by Deputy Chief Bryan Warner and I and approved by the Council of the Cherokee Nation in 2019, we have dramatically expanded our language department. He tried making a symbol for every idea, but this also caused too many problems to be practical. [36], At the time of European contact, there were three major dialects of Cherokee: Lower, Middle, and Overhill. The syllabary was used for over 100 years to make newspapers, books, religious texts, and almanacs (calendars). Chief Hoskin also appointed the tribe's first delegate to the U.S. Congress, doubled Cherokee Nation's funding for . [3], In 1829, Sequoyah settled in present day Sallisaw, Oklahoma, with his wife and daughter. [95], Meaning expansion can be illustrated by the words for 'warm' and 'cold', which can be also extended to mean 'south' and 'north'. Thousands of Cherokee became literate and the literacy rate for Cherokee in the original syllabary, as well as the typefaced syllabary, was higher in the Cherokee Nation than that of literacy of whites in the English alphabet in the United States. By reading this speech, he convinced the eastern Cherokee also to learn the system, after which it spread rapidly. [20], In 2011, the Muskogee Phoenix published an article relating a discovery in 1903 of a gravesite in the Wichita Mountains by Hayes and Fancher, which they believed was Sequoyah's. Several free Cherokee fonts are available including Digohweli, Donisiladv, and Noto Sans Cherokee. Self-taught as usual, he made his own tools, forge and bellows. [31], In 1824, the General Council of the Eastern Cherokee awarded Sequoyah a large silver medal in honor of the syllabary. Cherokee Language - Boy Drawing. Born in the 1760s in what is now Tennessee and trained as a silversmith and blacksmith, the Cherokee man never learned how to read or write in English, but he always knew that literacy and power. Cherokee has three numbers: singular, dual and plural. The Cherokee Nation celebrates the opening of the 52,000-square-foot Durbin Feeling Language Center in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, on November 15, 2022. The two men said the site was in a cave and contained a human skeleton with one leg shorter than the other, a long-stemmed pipe, two silver medals, a flintlock rifle and an ax. They are believed to have numbered some 22,500 individuals in 1650, and they controlled . Cherokee has been the co- official language of the Cherokee Nation alongside English since a 1991 legislation officially proclaimed this under the Act Relating to the Tribal Policy for the Promotion and Preservation of Cherokee Language, History, and Culture. According to a descendent of his, he was born with the name 'Gi sqwa ya' which means 'theres a bird inside.' [3], After seeing its worth, the people of the Cherokee Nation rapidly began to use his syllabary and officially adopted it in 1825. In 1829, Sequoyah moved to a location on Big Skin Bayou, where he built Sequoyah's Cabin that became his home for the rest of his life. The sonorants /n, l, j, w/ are devoiced when preceding or following /h/, with varying degrees of allophony: [n, l, j, w]. The white settlers of the area used the name Nowata for the township, and local Cherokee, being unaware that the word had its origins in the Delaware language, called the town (Amadikanigvnagvna) which means 'the water is all gone gone from here' i.e. Cherokee differentiates between progressive ('I am going') and habitual ('I go') more than English does. B. Milam, McFarlin Library, University of Tulsa. In 1826, the Cherokee National Council commissioned George Lowrey and David Brown to translate and print eight copies of the laws of the Cherokee Nation in the Cherokee language using Sequoyah's new system. Some prefixes are the same, even though they mean their opposite. The New Georgia Encyclopedia presents another version of Sequoyah's origins, from the history Tell Them They Lie: The Sequoyah Myth (1971), by Traveller Bird, who claims to be a Sequoyah descendant. "Endlicher and Sequoia: Determination of the Etymological Origin of the Taxon", "After decades, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians asks federal government to return land", "Sequoyah Museum: The Sequoyah Birthplace Museum", "Monument honoring Chief Sequoyah of the Cherokee Indian Nation. This page was last edited on 21 February 2023, at 19:04. April 21st, 1845. Here are a few examples: For these examples, the back conversion is likely to join s-a as sa or s-i as si. His achievement was one of the few times in recorded history that an individual who was a member of a pre-literate group created an original, effective writing system. Seating the Cherokee Delegate. Despite Cherokee being classified as either a vulnerable or endangered language, there are words for foreign concepts (e.g foreign animals, groups of people, foreign plants, etc) and names for foreign cities, towns and countries. Then in 2019, the Council of the Cherokee Nation approved the Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act, introduced by Deputy Chief Bryan Warner and me, to make the largest language investment in . /ts/ is palatalized as [t t] (voiced allophones: [d d]) in the Oklahoma dialects. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. He holds a copy of the syllabary in his left hand and is smoking a long-stemmed pipe. 2001. Digital Collection. Calhoun, Georgia. [21] A 2005 survey determined that the Eastern band had 460 fluent speakers. There are four strategies depending on the phonological and morphological environments:[71]. These make the identification of each individual morpheme often a difficult task: Cherokee distinguishes six pitch patterns or tones, using four pitch levels. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. [4] The Western dialect is most widely used and is considered the main dialect of the language. But in 1819 he backed out of the treaty which resulted in the loss of his first Alabama home, causing him to move to Willstown (modern day Fort Payne), Alabama. The Creek War had started during the period of the War of 1812, and represented an effort by traditional Creek to assert their power within the people and expel the European Americans. [81], Simple declarative sentences usually have a subject-object-verb or an object-verb-subject word order. The Eastern Dialect, also referred to as middle or Kituwa dialect, is spoken in the Qualla boundary in western North Carolina. Chuck Hoskin Jr. is the 18th elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, the largest Indian tribe in the United States. Sequoyah was born in the Cherokee town of Tuskegee, Tennessee, around 1778. After completing the lessons, Sequoyah wrote a dictated letter to each student, and read a dictated response. [9], As a silversmith, Sequoyah dealt regularly with European Americans who had settled in the area. His name is believed to come from the Cherokee word siqua meaning 'hog'. [46], Several universities offer Cherokee as a second language, including the University of Oklahoma, Northeastern State University, and Western Carolina University. Only around 20 common verbs require one of these classifiers (such as the equivalents of 'pick up', 'put down', 'remove', 'wash', 'hide', 'eat', 'drag', 'have', 'hold', 'put in water', 'put in fire', 'hang up', 'be placed', 'pull along'). chief adjective verb noun grammar A leader or head of a group of people, organisation, etc. Boston Athenum: Schoolcraft Collection of Books in Native American Languages. Use of any indigenous language in the government run Indian boarding schools resulted in some kind of physical punishment. A majority of the Cherokee believed that writing was either sorcery, witchcraft, a special gift, or a pretense; Sequoyah accepted none of these explanations. The reverse side showed two long-stemmed pipes and the same inscription written in Cherokee. Sixteen CN language translators and other staff members worked with . in Bruce G. Trigger (ed.). Sequoyah's final attempt was to develop a symbol for each syllable in the language. Some 15 identifiable Cherokee syllabary symbols were found carved into the limestone, accompanied by a date of 1808 or 1818. He knew that the papers represented a way to transmit information to other people in distant places, which his fellow American soldiers were able to do but he and other indigenous people could not. Holmes, Ruth Bradley; Betty Sharp Smith (1976). As Cherokee is official, the entire constitution of the United Keetoowah Band is available in both English and Cherokee. [11] The dialect of Cherokee in Oklahoma is "definitely endangered", and the one in North Carolina is "severely endangered" according to UNESCO. Indefinite (solid, heavy relative to size), also used as default category, Aspirated consonants are generally not distinguished from their plain counterpart. Various explanations have been proposed, but the reason is unknown. Up to this point, while Sequoyah was not formally educated, he recognized the advantage that comes with an established written language. Kituwah Preservation & Education Program Powerpoint, by Renissa Walker (2012)'. After remaining with them some time, he made his way with a son and two or three other Cherokees, into Northern Mexico, toward Chi-hua-hua, and engaged a while in teaching the Mexicans his native language. The Cherokees had no royalty. Like many Native American languages, Cherokee has many pronominal prefixes that can index both subject and object. [5], Around 200 speakers of the Eastern (also referred to as the Middle or Kituwah) dialect remain in North Carolina, and language preservation efforts include the New Kituwah Academy, a bilingual immersion school. Most Cherokee people speak English today, but 20,000 people also speak the Cherokee Indian language. Unlike most languages, the Cherokee inventory of consonants lacks the labial sounds p, b, f, and v. Cherokee does, however, have one labial consonant m, but it is rare, appearing in no more than ten native words. Students could accomplish in a few weeks what students of English writing could learn in two years. The ubiquitous Cherokee princess is a In: Garry, Jane, and Carl Rubino (eds. While the tonal system is undergoing a gradual simplification in many areas, it remains important in meaning and is still held strongly by many, especially older, speakers. His achievement was one of the few times in recorded history that an individual . Which is The stops /t, k, k/ and affricates /ts, t/ are voiced in the beginning of syllables and between vowels: [d, g, g, dz, d]. Ta'gwadihi [1] ("Catawba-killer"), also known as Thomas Glass or simply the Glass, at least in correspondence with American officials, [2] was a leading chief of the Cherokee in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, eventually becoming the last principal chief of the Chickamauga (or Lower Cherokee). *u-gv-wi-yu-hi*, Continue Learning about Movies & Television. It unified a forcibly divided nation with new ways of communication and a sense of independence. After the Nation accepted his syllabary in 1825, Sequoyah traveled to the Cherokee lands in the Arkansas Territory. But after the people began to see its value, the syllabary quickly spread and Sequoyah was awarded a medal from the Cherokee National Council in 1824. The village of San Fernando de Rosas was later renamed as Zaragoza. The number of Cherokee pronouns marks not only the agent of a verb, but often the object as well. His daughter helped him to identify the Cherokee syllables. Other Cherokee words contain character pairs that entail overlapping transliteration sequences. "Florescence as a force in grammaticalization. In 1938, the Cherokee Nation Principal Chief J. The Giduwa (or Kituwah) dialect (Eastern Band) and the Otali dialect (also called the Overhill dialect) spoken in Oklahoma. As an official language, any tribal member may communicate with the tribal government in Cherokee or English, English translation services are provided for Cherokee speakers, and both Cherokee and English are used when the tribe provides services, resources, and information to tribal members or when communicating with the tribal council. *U-gv-wi-yu-hi* (Chief) *hi-yu-we-ji* (his daughter), Mikko, sometimes said in English as mingo. [13][dubious discuss] Over time, naturally, tribes began to form their own dialects depending on what region they lived in. However, this date is too late, because Sequoyah was already living in Alabama when he enlisted in the army. By 1809, Sequoyah is believed to have started developing what became his Cherokee syllabary, in hopes of unifying the Cherokee nation and making them more independent (see section below). The symbols are written in a chart layout, with the columns being each vowel and the rows being each consonant. From the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Nigada aniyvwi nigeguda'lvna ale unihloyi unadehna duyukdv gesv'i. Others have stated that it was around 1809, when he started his work on the Cherokee syllabary. Supposedly, Sequoyah wore the medal throughout the rest of his life, and it was buried with him.[30]. Sequoyah became convinced that the secret of what he considered the white peoples superior power was written language, which enabled them to accumulate and transmit more knowledge than was possible for a people dependent on memory and word of mouth. Word spread in their town that they created a new way to communicate, and they were charged and brought to trial by the town chief. Sequoyah (Cherokee: , Ssiquoya,[a] or , Se-quo-ya;[b] c. 1770 August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath of the Cherokee Nation. Gist would have been a man of some social status and financial backing, Josiah C. Nott claimed he was the "son of a Scotchman". During his time serving, he witnessed first hand the disadvantage of not having a written language. [29], When Sequoyah returned east, he brought a sealed envelope containing a written speech from one of the Arkansas Cherokee leaders. This land was purchased by the Cherokees in the 1870s. Cherokee Nation is recognizing Oct. 15 as "Sequoyah Day" after Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. signed a proclamation. He realized that his first approach was impractical because it would require too many pictures to be remembered. For example, while, Long vowels are not distinguished from short vowels. The reverse side showed two long-stemmed pipes and the same inscription written in Cherokee. Cherokee Language - Boy Drinking Water. There is a list of countries and dependencies in Cherokee available here. People of all ages are taught the language, parents and adults, children in schools, and it is offered at several universities in Oklahoma and North Carolina. Some good examples are (ditiyohihi, 'he argues repeatedly and on purpose with a purpose') corresponding to 'attorney' and (didaniyisgi, 'the final catcher' or 'he catches them finally and conclusively') for 'policeman. myth. [44], There is also a Cherokee language immersion school in Tahlequah, Oklahoma that educates students from pre-school through eighth grade. A letter written in 1845 by accompanying Cherokee stated that he had died in 1843:[10], Warren's Trading House, Red River, Join the Cherokee Nation Wings Program for the Super Hero 5K beginning at 8 a.m. at the Redbird Smith Health Center in . As he grew older and came in contact with more white men, he learned how to make jewelry. [15] (The present-day city of Sallisaw, Oklahoma, developed near here.) There are about 450 Languages spoken in India and about 700 There are two main dialects, the Eastern and Western. /t/ has merged with /ts/ in most North Carolina dialects. Despite his lack of schooling, Sequoyah displayed much natural intelligence. [4] The Overhill, or Western, dialect is spoken in eastern Oklahoma and by the Snowbird Community in North Carolina[37] by ~1,300 people. This is a reference either to his childhood deformity or to a later injury that left Sequoyah disabled. About eight fluent speakers die each month, and only a handful of people under the age of 40 are fluent. [47] WCU and the EBCI have initiated a ten-year language revitalization plan consisting of: (1) a continuation of the improvement and expansion of the EBCI Atse Kituwah Cherokee Language Immersion School, (2) continued development of Cherokee language learning resources, and (3) building of Western Carolina University programs to offer a more comprehensive language training curriculum. Cherokee also makes the distinction between inclusive and exclusive pronouns in the first person dual and plural. It is unclear when Sequoyah initially moved to Alabama from Tennessee. The morphological complexity of the Cherokee language is best exhibited in verbs, which comprise approximately 75% of the language, as opposed to only 25% of the English language. The participating children and their parents learn to speak and read together. 'no water. When Sequoyah went to the eastern tribes, he brought a sealed envelope containing a written speech from one of the Arkansas Cherokee leaders. The consonants for North Carolina Cherokee are given in the table below. And from there it continued to be taught across the Cherokee tribes and towns in the east. Ex: they merge in a different vowel or tone quality. He was an accomplished silversmith, painter, and warrior and served with the U.S. Army in the Creek War in 181314. When he tried to convince the local leaders of the syllabary's usefulness, they doubted him. The Syllabary provided mass literacy for the Cherokee Nation, which was one of the first indigenous groups to have a functional written language. equated our chiefs with kings, the Cherokee word for chief has also [66] Spellings working from the syllabary rather than from the sounds often behave similarly, /ts/ and /k/ being the only two stop series not having separate letters for plain and aspirated before any vowel in Sequoyah script. The Cherokee council voted not to adopt Sequoyah's numbering system. [17], Sequoyah dreamed of seeing reunification of the splintered Cherokee Nation. Learn how Sequoyah invented the Cherokee writing system, This article was most recently revised and updated by, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sequoyah, Architect of the Capitol - Biography of Sequoyah, Tennessee Encyclopedia - Biography of Sequoyah, Sequoyah - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Sequoyah - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). Sequoyah (Cherokee: , Ssiquoya, or , Se-quo-ya; c. 1770 - August 1843), also known as George Gist or George Guess, was a Native American polymath of the Cherokee Nation. [5] The language retains about 1,500[11] to 2,100[5] Cherokee speakers, but an average of eight fluent speakers die each month, and only a handful of people under 40 years of age are fluent as of 2019. Some researchers (such as Thomas Whyte) have suggested the homeland of the proto-Iroquoian language resides in Appalachia. ), which is rarely written with any tone markers, except in dictionaries. [79] Cherokee is the only Iroquoian language with this type of classificatory verb system, leading linguists to reanalyze it as a potential remnant of a noun incorporation system in Proto-Iroquoian. In February 2022, Motorola Mobility introduced a Cherokee language interface for its latest smartphone. [27] Langguth says she was only six years old at the time. Prior to being elected Principal Chief, Hoskin served as the tribe's . [39] They can also bear prepronominal prefixes, reflexive prefixes, and derivational suffixes. A single Cherokee Unicode font, Plantagenet Cherokee, is supplied with macOS, version 10.3 (Panther) and later. [6][38] Both dialects have had English influence, with the Overhill, or Western dialect showing some Spanish influence as well.[38]. The principal chief debate will begin following the intermission. While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. In the people's matrilineal kinship system, children were considered born into their mother's family and clan, and her male relatives were most important to their upbringing. He is only the second elected Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation from Vinita, the first being Thomas Buffington, who served from 1899-1903. and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Eventually the warriors presiding over their trial, along with the town, believed that Sequoyah did in fact create a new form of communication, and they all wanted him to teach it to them.[7]. [13] Of the remaining two dialects, the Middle dialect (Kituwah) is spoken by the Eastern band on the Qualla Boundary, and retains ~200 speakers. A long vowel is simply held longer than a short vowel is--the sound it makes is not altered. [83] Adverbs precede the verbs that they are modifying. In the case of Cherokee, the nasalized vowel is a mid central vowel usually represented as v and is pronounced [], that is as a schwa vowel like the unstressed "a" in the English word "comma" plus the nasalization. Given all possible combinations of affixes, each regular verb can have 21,262 inflected forms. The first six characters represent isolated vowel syllables. The syllabary is not an alphabet but a chart or guide to represent each symbol that stands for a consonant-vowel sequence or a syllable. Despite the three-thousand-year geographic separation, the Cherokee language today still shows some similarities to the languages spoken around the Great Lakes, such as Mohawk, Onondaga, Seneca, and Tuscarora. After approximately a month, he had a system of 86 characters. The news that an illiterate Cherokee had created a syllabary spread throughout the United States and its territories. For example, the verb form gga, 'I am going,' has each of these elements: The pronominal prefix is g-, which indicates first person singular. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Other sources state that his father also could have been an unlicensed German peddler named George Gist, who came into the Cherokee Nation in 1768, where he married and fathered a child. Cherokee verbs, the most important word type, must contain at a minimum a pronominal prefix, a verb root, an aspect suffix, and a modal suffix,[19] for a total of 17 verb tenses. Endlicher's sequence: the naming of the genus, Last edited on 21 February 2023, at 19:04, Learn how and when to remove this template message, History of the Indian Tribes of North America, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Sequoia High School (Redwood City, California), "Sequoyah | The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture", "The international impact of Sequoyah's Cherokee syllabary", "Sequoyah and the Creation of the Cherokee Syllabary", "1839 Cherokee Constitution born from Act of Union", "Cherokee language, writing system and pronunciation", "Cherokee language | Description & Facts". The PDF Unicode chart shows the new-form of the letter. These last two symbols, representing ",000" and ",000,000", are made up of two separate symbols each. Transliteration software that operates without access to or reference to context greater than a single character can have difficulties with some Cherokee words. There is no distinction between dual and plural in the 3rd person. There are several similar examples involving these character combinations: naha nahe nahi naho nahu nahv. The Cherokee Immersion School (Tsalagi Tsunadeloquasdi) in Tahlequah serves children in federally recognized tribes from pre-school up to grade 6. [28][29] In 1825 the Cherokee Nation officially adopted the writing system. come to be translated as king. [34], The language remains concentrated in some Oklahoma communities[35] and communities like Big Cove and Snowbird in North Carolina. [11][12], The syllabary was not hard for the Cherokee people to learn, and by 1830, 90% of Cherokees were literate in their own language. Corrections? wee you hee), There is no way to say the word princess in Cherokee, since Some words may contain sounds not reflected in the given phonology: for instance, the modern Oklahoma use of the loanword "automobile", with the // and /b/ sounds of English. The Cherokees had no royalty. As Principal Chief, he increased minimum wage at Cherokee . 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