Cherokee pop-soul singer Austin Markham was among the recording artists who contributed a song to the new Cherokee-language album "Anvdvnelisgi," which translates to "Performers" in English. Austin ...

Sometimes, it's not the meaning of a song's lyrics that get to you. It's the emotion in the singer's voice. That holds true even if the song is in a language you don't understand. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, ...

Howard Paden cited statistics that sounded alarming. His tribe is fighting back with a different kind of sound — music. Paden, executive director of the Cherokee Nation Language Department, provided ...

Singer and guitarist Agalisiga Mackey (center), one of the artists featured on up upcoming album Anvdvnelisgi, sings Bob Dylan’s “I Shall Be Released” in the Cherokee language at the opening of the ...

A small group of adults in Tulsa are learning to sing in Cherokee, as they revive the language some spoke and sang in childhood. It’s part of a larger effort by the Cherokee Nation to preserve and ...