ani-tsalagi gesvase uganawuiditlv ani-nvdawegi. hilayv yonega ulutsvise, ani-nvdawegi gesvise gayula adanvtisita. itsula gayula uhise digalogodine. itsula tla uduladise nigavquone gado-usdi yonega uhise. aseno nasgidv agisdise aquatseli elohine ale nasgidv adanedise itsulv ugodi esgaiyv elohine. ayeliiyv itsulv vhnai ayohuhisdise getsakahvda anegvi nahna. Hiane nasgidv uyanvdase adanvtisodine.
ᎠᏂ-ᏣᎳᎩ ᎨᏒᎠᏎ ᎤᎦᎾᏭᎢᏗᏢ ᎠᏂ-ᏅᏓᏪᎩ. ᎯᎳᏴ ᏲᏁᎦ ᎤᎷᏨᎢᏎ, ᎠᏂ-ᏅᏓᏪᎩ ᎨᏒᎢᏎ ᎦᏳᎳ ᎠᏓᏅᏘᏏᏔ. ᎢᏧᎳ ᎦᏳᎳ ᎤᎯᏎ ᏗᎦᎶᎪᏗᏁ. ᎢᏧᎳ Ꮭ ᎤᏚᎳᏗᏎ ᏂᎦᎥᏉᏁ ᎦᏙ-ᎤᏍᏗ ᏲᏁᎦ ᎤᎯᏎ. ᎠᏎᏃ ᎾᏍᎩᏛ ᎠᎩᏍᏗᏎ ᎠᏆᏤᎵ ᎡᎶᎯᏁ ᎠᎴ ᎾᏍᎩᏛ ᎠᏓᏁᏗᏎ ᎢᏧᎸ ᎤᎪᏗ ᎡᏍᎦᎢᏴ ᎡᎶᎯᏁ. ᎠᏰᎵᎢᏴ ᎢᏧᎸ ᎥᎿᎢ ᎠᏲᎱᎯᏍᏗᏎ ᎨᏣᎧᎲᏓ ᎠᏁᎬᎢ ᏀᎾ. ᎯᎠᏁ ᎾᏍᎩᏛ ᎤᏯᏅᏓᏎ ᎠᏓᏅᏘᏐᏗᏁ.
[English]
The Cherokee are Southern Iroquois. When the white people arrived, the Iroquois Indians were already civilized. We already had agriculture. We did not need anything that the white people had. But they took our land, and gave us land that was much worse. Half of us died on the Trail of Tears. This they call civilization.
