OU Department of Anthropology

The curriculum was developed by Laura Anderson and several native speakers--Mary Sunday, George Pumpkin, Polly Reed, Bobby Joe Blossom--drawing on a wide range of materials, including linguistic studies and pedagogical materials developed elsewhere.

The Curriculum

Students in Cherokee I are introduced to the following:

Beginning greetings and conversational phrases
Forming interrogatives
Human, animate and inanimate nouns
Modifying and pluralizing nouns
Possessives
Noun and verb pronominals
Affixation on nouns and verbs
Morphological analysis
Beginning sentence construction

Faculty

Christine Armer
Durbin Feeling
Charles Foster