How the Removal of Cherokee Children from Tsalagi Speaking Homes Led to a Decline in the Tsalagi Language

Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: A, University of Southampton, course: Screenwriting BA (Hons) - Researching and Writing, language: English, abstract: An exploration of the decline of the Tsalagi language due to the remvoal of Cherokee children from their native speaking homes. Inculdes discussion of the Missionaries, Henry Richard Pratt and the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, Sequoyah and His Syllabary and the Effects and Decline in Language and the Solutions.