New Kituwah Academy

New Kituwah Academy
ᎠᏤ ᎩᏚᏩ ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ
Address
Map
60 Waterdam Road

Cherokee
,
Swain
,
North Carolina
28719

United States
Coordinates35°30′04″N 83°18′37″W / 35.501071°N 83.310233°W / 35.501071; -83.310233
Information
Motto"Kituwah First"[1]
Opened19 April 2004 (2004-04-19)[2]
StatusOpen
AuthorityEastern Band of Cherokee Indians
NCES School IDA1302201[3]
PrincipalCrystal Carpenter[4]
Enrollment98[5] (2018)
AccreditationSouthern Association of Colleges and Schools
Websitehttps://ebcikpep.com/
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The New Kituwah Academy (Cherokee: ᎠᏤ ᎩᏚᏩ ᏧᎾᏕᎶᏆᏍᏗ, Atse Kituwah Tsunadeloquasdi;[6][7] gi-DOO-wah),[8] also known as the Atse Kituwah Academy,[9] is a private bilingual Cherokee- and English-language immersion school for Cherokee students in kindergarten through sixth grade,[10] located in Cherokee, North Carolina,[11] in the Yellow Hill community of the Qualla Boundary.[9] It is owned by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI),[12] and operated by the Kituwah Preservation and Education Program (KPEP).[13][14]

The school is part of a larger effort by the EBCI to save and revitalize the endangered Cherokee language by creating immersion and other language-learning opportunities;[15] it also instills Cherokee cultural pride.[16]

The word kituwah (ᎩᏚᏩ) is used by the Eastern Cherokee to refer to both themselves and their language; it can also mean "center" or "mother town" depending on context.[8] New Kituwah is independent from the Cherokee Central Schools at Qualla Boundary.[17]

  1. ^ Redmond, Mary Lynn; Wiethaus, Ulrike (Fall 2009). "The Atse Kituwah Academy: An Immersion Model that Holds the Key to the Future of the Cherokee Language and Culture". Learning Languages. 15 (1): 34–37. ISSN 1083-5415. ERIC EJ871246.
  2. ^ McKie, Scott (2011-04-19). "Seven Years! New Kituwah Academy celebrates anniversary". Cherokee One Feather. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  3. ^ "School Detail for New Kituwah Academy". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  4. ^ Kituwah Preservation and Education Program Accessed June 3, 2019.
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  6. ^ "KPEP/NKA Calendar" (PDF). New Kituwah Academy. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Cherokee Nation Education Services". Cherokee Nation. Retrieved 10 July 2019.
  8. ^ a b Waggoner, Martha (2015-03-27). "Hopes of preserving Cherokee language rest with children". Hickory Record. Associated Press. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
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  10. ^ "KPEP and Kituwah". Eastern Band of Cherokee. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  11. ^ Schlemmer, Liz (2018-12-24). "To Save Their Endangered Language, 2 Cherokee Brothers Learn As They Teach". NPR. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  12. ^ "Cherokee Language". Cherokee Preservation Foundation. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
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  14. ^ Weston, J. "New Cherokee School Opens". Cultural Survival. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  15. ^ Jessel, Christine (2013-09-26). "Lessons In Cherokee Teach More Than Language". WUOT. Retrieved 28 February 2019.
  16. ^ Relyea, Laura. "With Drawl". The Bitter Southerner. Retrieved 28 February 2019. The Eastern Cherokees are working hard to preserve their languages. Educational programming that happens there, as well as at the Atse Kituwah Immersion Academy, aims to get Cherokee children speaking the language at a young enough age that they can grow up comfortably within it, and pass the along to generations to follow. They also aim to instill the children with the a strong sense of cultural pride.
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