ᎠᏂᏲᏍᎩ ᏧᎾᎴᏅᎯ ᏓᏂᏱᎳᏫᏍᏗᏍᎬ ᎠᏂᏣᎳᎩ ᏚᏁᏅᏒ ᎠᎴ ᎦᏓ ᏚᏂᎲ ᏚᏂᎯᏰᎢ ᎠᏎ ᎤᎾᏓᏅᏍᏗ ᏥᏄᎵᏍᏔᏁ ᏁᎳᏚᎢᏍᎪᎯᏧᏈ ᏦᏍᎪᎯ ᎤᏕᏘᏴᏌᏗᏒ ᎨᏒᎢ. ᎠᎴ ᎪᏪᎵ ᏧᏃᏪᎳᏅ ᏚᏂᎾᏫᏛᎮ.
Even when soldiers forced the people from their lands and sent them west in the 1830s, the Cherokee held on to their books.