The Cherokee Nation continues to take steps to preserve and expand the speaking of the Cherokee Language.

The Nation has just been awarded a grant worth up to $900,000 over the next three years from the United States Department of the Interior. The Living Language Grant Program will expand the duties of the existing Teacher Bridge project, which was created to increase both learner proficiency and professional skills for Cherokee Language Master and Apprentice Program graduates as they become Cherokee language teacher candidates. The tribe received an initial $300,000, with additional funding every year for two additional years based on funding appropriations from Congress.