Word-List, English Glossary and Specimens

Donald N. Panther-Yates

Native American languages are the most imperiled on earth. Since words serve not only to reflect reality but also to create and model it for others, language extinction does more than simply rob descendants of their cultural patrimony. It deprives everyone of a unique worldview. The simplicity and spirituality of the Tihanama people can be appreciated in the word chosen for the title of this collection. Their word for teaching, tchojoho, means literally "echo the heart." Tihanama is preserved in Rita Coolidge's "Cherokee Morning Song" on Music for the Native Americans, also known as “Windeyaho.” Learn this and other Tihanama songs appearing in print for the first time.

First Edition
Cherokee Chapbooks
Published by Panther's Lodge
[February 2012]
ISBN 1470032651
ISBN-13 978-1470032654
Paperbound 6 x 9

Donald N. Yates (also published as Donald Panther-Yates) is an American genealogist, author and cultural historian. He is the author of Old World Roots of the Cherokee, The Bear Went over the Mountain, The Eighth Arrow, Los Lunas Mystery Stone, A Memoir of Chief Two White Feathers  and Red Man's Origin. He is a one-quarter blood Cherokee descendant and lives in Phoenix.