Language Lessons: Mural project spotlights Cherokee legacy
Volume
28
/ Issue 40
Cover Design Credit:
Scott SouthwickCover Photography Credit:
Dimitri Schemel
Through the Indigenous Walls Project, Jared Wheatley aims to stimulate conversations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people on a broader level. He also hopes to help raise awareness of a larger movement to reintroduce the Cherokee syllabary and language, collaborate with the more than 500 Indigenous nations in the U.S. and fight against stigmas that continue to hamper Native Americans.
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