However, this is false. Stapp must not realize that many Cherokee speakers are still alive and not extinct. They also read the news and see these people claiming to know the Cherokee language when they actually know nothing of the language or Cherokee culture at all.

We call them wannabes. First they bastardized our culture, then our Arts and Crafts, resulting in the Indian Arts and Craft Law of 1990 to stop fake Native Americans who are not enrolled with a federally or state recognized tribe from selling fake Indian Crafts and art.

Now they are attempting to reinvent our Native languages, Cherokee being one of them. Fess up, Scott. Milan is Italain, not a Cherokee word!

http://www.geocities.com/cherokee_newspaper

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