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Hartwell Francis received a PhD in theoretical linguistics from the University of Colorado, Boulder. In 2006 he became the founding Director of the Cherokee Language Program at Western Carolina University. He moved the program from full grant funding to its current university-funded program status. He moved on to take the Education Curriculum Developer position with Kituwah Preservation and Education Program of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. In 2021 he became an honorary member of the EBCI.
Through genius Sequoyah, the Cherokee people developed literacy and literature in the early 19th century. Cherokee literacy and literary production continued in the Eastern Band up to the work of Will West Long (died 1947). Recently, with the work of major language scholars of the Eastern … read more.
