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Product details:
- Publisher University of Nebraska Press
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Cloth Over Boards
- ISBN 9781496235701
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 666 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 photographs, 1 illustration, 3 tables, 2 appendixes, index 700
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Short description:
Rising Above examines the process of language shift and revitalization among the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians in North Carolina.
Long description:
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 language with trepidation as a young adult and his eventual work revitalizing the Cherokee language in a Cherokee way. In the first book to examine the process of language shift and revitalization among this band, Frey explores the institutional, economic, and social factors that drove the language shift from Cherokee to English, interpreted through the lens of a member of the Eastern Band Cherokee community in conversation with other community members. Rising Above navigates Frey’s upbringing, the intricacies of language and relationships, the impact of trauma, and the quest for joy and healing within the community.
In addition to language documentation and preservation, Rising Above explores how to breathe new life into the language and community, using storytelling to discuss the Cherokee language, its grammatical components, and its embedded cultural ideologies alongside its interactions with broader American society.
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
1. Coming Home through Language
2. Language and Relationships
3. The Piercing of Our Container via Trauma and Violence
4. Where’s the Joy?
5. Living in a Good Way
Appendix A: Recommendations for Language Reclamation Initiatives
Appendix B: An Incomplete List of Cherokee Language Learning and Revitalization Resources
Notes
Bibliography
Index
