:: Mission Statement ::
MISSION STATEMENT:
Provide our communities with the opportunities and resources to cultivate and
perpetuate our history, language and culture.
PROGRAM CREED:
Preserving our memory, our lifeway, and revitalizing our language.
SERVICES:
Hours of Operation:
We observe all tribal and federally recognized holidays.
Monday – Friday
7:45 a.m. Until 4:30 p.m.
Junaluska Memorial Site and Museum
Monday - Friday
7:45 a.m. Until 4:30 p.m.
Saturdays by appointment. Summer hours will be posted.
Call: (828)479-4727
Disclaimer:
Information provided in the following fluent1 pages are provided mainly by the
Kituwah Preservation & Education Program (KPEP) of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians (EBCI). Please note that cultural language information may vary from clan to
clan, location to location, family to family, and from differing opinions and
experiences. Dialects also vary from community to community, family to family – it is
the policy of KPEP to respect all variances of the language. KPEP does not take
official positions on how things are said, rather we promote that all ways of saying
things are correct and should be respected. Some materials on this site have been
provided by members of the Cherokee Nation. As there are dialectal differences
within the EBCI, there will be differences between ourselves (EBCI) and the
Cherokee Nation. Further, KPEP’s position on these differences is that they should
all be honored and respected.
Provide our communities with the opportunities and resources to cultivate and
perpetuate our history, language and culture.
PROGRAM CREED:
Preserving our memory, our lifeway, and revitalizing our language.
SERVICES:
- Administration and program oversight for the Cherokee Language Immersion
Rooms - Cultural and traditional interpretation
- Translations - English to Cherokee and Cherokee to English
- Educational presentations
- Annual Kituwah Celebration
- Language Revitalization Symposium
- Junaluska Memorial Site and Museum
- Cherokee Language Initiative
Hours of Operation:
We observe all tribal and federally recognized holidays.
Monday – Friday
7:45 a.m. Until 4:30 p.m.
Junaluska Memorial Site and Museum
Monday - Friday
7:45 a.m. Until 4:30 p.m.
Saturdays by appointment. Summer hours will be posted.
Call: (828)479-4727
Disclaimer:
Information provided in the following fluent1 pages are provided mainly by the
Kituwah Preservation & Education Program (KPEP) of the Eastern Band of Cherokee
Indians (EBCI). Please note that cultural language information may vary from clan to
clan, location to location, family to family, and from differing opinions and
experiences. Dialects also vary from community to community, family to family – it is
the policy of KPEP to respect all variances of the language. KPEP does not take
official positions on how things are said, rather we promote that all ways of saying
things are correct and should be respected. Some materials on this site have been
provided by members of the Cherokee Nation. As there are dialectal differences
within the EBCI, there will be differences between ourselves (EBCI) and the
Cherokee Nation. Further, KPEP’s position on these differences is that they should
all be honored and respected.
| Harry Oosahwee, Myrtle Driver, and Tom Belt are all participatns in the Speakers' Consortium. |
| Parents and grandparents enjoying an immersion performance during Elders' Day. |
| Immersion classrooms enjoyed a day in the sun picking strawberries. |
