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Tim King grew up in Kenwood, Oklahoma a small community in the Cherokee Nation, about 30 miles north of Tahlequah. There was like several residents in there and probably about 10 houses, said King. But everybody spoke Cherokee in that region, in that holler we grew up in.
King comes from a long line of Cherokee speakers and didn’t speak English until he entered the public school system at age 5. He said those first days learning a new language was difficult. We hadn t heard it that much, maybe on TV. We were around our grandmas and grandpas aunts and uncles. said King.