Indigenous Governance Database

PBS "We Shall Remain": Teaching Teenagers

Producer
American Experience (in association with NAPT)
Year

Made up of 45 Cherokee teenagers, the Cherokee National Youth Choir sings almost exclusively in Cherokee. The choir performs traditional Cherokee music, gospel, patriotic music translated into Cherokee, and children's songs...

cultural preservation
language revitalization
Native Nations
Cherokee Nation
Topics
Cultural Affairs
Governance
Citation

American Experience (in association with NAPT). "Teaching Teenagers." PBS "We Shall Remain" documentary series. April 13, 2009. Film. (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/native_now/language_cherokee_2, accessed April 19, 2013)

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