Race and Education

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. (AP) - Visitors to the Cherokee Immersion Charter School are told not to speak English in the classrooms.

Notices throughout the school say "You are entering an endangered language habitat, the only existing habitat where children are being taught Cherokee."

Cherokee is spoken, heard, written, and read in each classroom of this school which goes from pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade. Charts show South American countries, planets, parts of the body and the Pledge of Allegiance in letters from the Cherokee syllabary.