WHAT:
The Cherokee Nation will celebrate the grand opening of its new $30M ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ ᎦᎵᏉᎩ ᏂᏚᏳᎪᏛ (School of the Seven Directions) Cherokee Immersion Middle School.
WHEN:
Monday, Aug. 17 at 10 a.m.
WHERE:
Cherokee Immersion Middle School
16345 Highway 62
Tahlequah, Oklahoma
WHO:
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr.
Deputy Chief Bryan Warner
Council of the Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Nation Cabinet
Cherokee Nation Language Department
TAHLEQUAH, Okla. – The Cherokee Nation will open its new School of the Seven Directions Cherokee Immersion Middle School on Monday.
Construction on the more than 66,000-square-foot middle school began in August 2024 as part of the Hoskin/Warner Administration’s Durbin Feeling Language Preservation Act. Previously, all pre-K through eighth-grade students attended classes at the Durbin Feeling Language Center. Starting this year, fourth through eighth graders will move to the new middle school, while students in third grade and below will continue classes at the Durbin Feeling Language Center and allow that program to expand to more students. Classes at the new school are set to begin Aug. 27.
The middle school was built with Cherokee traditions in mind. There are over a dozen classrooms and the courtyard has a playground, stickball field and an art patio. The campus includes a gym with a basketball court, an open media center, a cafeteria with a stage, specialty classrooms that are equipped for art, music, dance, wrestling, life-skills, pottery, a science lab, a STEM lab; areas for flint knapping, bow-making, woodcarving, and much more. The courtyard and specialty classrooms will also be utilized by the students at the Durbin Feeling Language Center and the Greasy Immersion School students. Contractors were Thompson Construction, Inc. and architects for the project were Blue River. The school features are entirely in the Cherokee language with no English on signage or spoken in the school.
To learn more about the Cherokee Nation Language immersion schools, contact the Language Department at 918-207-4900.
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