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WorkCamps

  • Cherokee Language Program Instructor Tom Belt transcribed and translated this passage.
  • vsgi hno iga iyadvhndi uniha. gesdihno sgwisd adel yidunihe yvwi. unalenvhvhno anosvsgv adel ahani sonelidsgwo tsosgo itsudetidisv unalenvhv'i, hnahno na CC Camps tsadanosehv dunisdu'igisv. anisgaya unalenvhv dunilvhwisdanehv nolehno anigisgv gohusd adela.
  • That was all that people had to do. They didn’t have a lot of money. People started making money in this area in the 1930s when the Conservation Corps Camps opened up. Men got jobs and people had an income.