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The Cherokee language is in trouble. According to UNESCO, Cherokee is definitely endangered in Oklahoma and severely endangered in North Carolina. There are fewer than 2000 native speakers left, and they will be gone within a generation or two. Many people want to help by learning Cherokee, but they may not know where to begin. Journeying Into Cherokee was written to encourage people to study the language, while providing them with the tools to be successful. Topics covered include the following: why learning Cherokee is important; how to overcome negative attitudes; how to begin; how to use the language in your everyday life from day one; strategies to ensure retention; pitfalls to avoid; understanding the difference between English and Cherokee; the challenge of translation; how to utilize resources; thinking in Cherokee, and more. Alternating chapters from native-speaker Ed Fields and second-language learner Mary Rae give readers a valuable dual perspective on these topics. The last chapter is unique: a transcription of a short translation on which the authors collaborated. There is also a Frequently Asked Questions section and an extensive list of resources to help students on their journey into the language. Ed Fields' and Mary Rae's chapters are, at times, deeply personal, with moments of humor as well as somber reflections, and are sure to engage the reader. Journeying Into Cherokee shows that everyone who is motivated can learn Cherokee and enjoy the process.

Charles Wolfe Collins has been investigating various clandestine matters for influential Washington politicians since 1865, having been a confidential operative for General Grant during the War of the Rebellion. In late summer of 1879, he is sent upon a mission into Colorado to assess the disintegrating state of affairs between the mercenary ambitions of white men and the treaty prerogatives of Ute Indian peoples. Drawn into a quagmire of hired provocateurs, vitriolic newspaper propaganda, fraudulent government contractors, a delusionary Indian agent and the baffled frustration of irate Ute chiefs, Charles Collins is charged with preventing a violent collision between U.S. cavalry troops and Ute warriors dedicated to protecting their families. Formidable economic and political interests are determined to contrive a situation within which the Ute people may be decisively eliminated while Collins seeks to unravel the tangle of deception, ultimately placing his trust in a fierce and mercurial war chief. Racing against time, they endeavor to disrupt the predictable outcome of an impending catastrophe.

Original Truths are the foundation upon which Crosslin Smith has lived his life. These truths are what Crosslin wants to share. In his words, "e;It is time for all to know."e; These truths are guideposts in helping those who want to experience health, inner peace and peace among all people. This knowledge being shared is a message for all humankind regardless of race, color or creed.This message and the messenger originate from the Keetoowah Society, the traditional spiritual society within the Cherokee tribe, Today, Crosslin Smith - a traditional Keetoowah elder, practitioner and counselor - publicly acknowledges, for the first time, the richness of his Cherokee heritage. Yet he clearly stresses the lessons and teachings contained within the Original Truths are no longer the sole ownership of the Keetoowahs or the Cherokees. They are, and always were, universal truths.We can no longer afford to support separation among people, separation within the self, or separation from our past and our future. Externally, internally, and spiritually, it is time to Stand As One. Crosslin invites us all to absorb the lessons illuminated by these stories to awaken the spirit living within each one of us so that we can experience and nurture our oneness with all humanity. This message from the past has found it moment in the present.

Charles Wolfe Collins is an Irish immigrant, ex-spy, Pinkerton operative, and a veteran of the Civil War. Collins is being sent on a hazardous assignment by President Grant in 1876, the nation's centennial. President Grant has recently received intelligence in military dispatches that there had been white men fighting alongside the Indians at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He wants Collins to investigate and report back regarding the identity of these men. Collins embarks on a long journey into remote regions of Montana Territory, picking up clues along the way, and is eventually accompanied by a Native American woman guide, whose motives for taking Collins deep into Indian country are inscrutable. As the two proceed into the middle of a deadly conflict between vengeful soldiers and embittered Lakota warriors, they must cross an expansive cultural gap and learn to trust each other. At great risk, they seek to solve a mystery, documented in forgotten historical and military records, which could pose serious ramifications for American politics and the course of Federal Indian Policy in the territories of the United States.