are doing for language revitalization is because of Durbin.” In 2019, the Cherokee Nation chose Feeling as the first signatory of the Cherokee Language Speakers Roll. The Cherokee Nation's planned language learning center will be named the Durbin Feeling Language Center in his honor. The Sam Noble Museum holds the Durbin Feeling Collection, containing his extensive Cherokee-language materials, including letters written in Cherokee to and from members of Feeling’s family. On August 4, 2021, the United States Senate Senate Committee on Indian Affairs passed the Durbin Feeling Native American Language Act of 2021. The Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin, Jr. remarked "This bill is named in honor of the largest contributor to the Cherokee language since Sequoyah, the late Durbin Feeling, who advocated tirelessly for Native language and revitalization efforts. No one is more worthy of this honor than Durbin." President Joe Biden signed the act into law on January 5, 2022. Selected works Feeling, Durbin. Cherokee–English Dictionary. Tahlequah: Cherokee Nation, 1975. Feeling, Durbin. A structured approach to learning the basic inflections of the Cherokee verb. Neff Publishing Company, 1994. Pulte, William, and Durbin Feeling. "Morphology in Cherokee Lexicography." Making dictionaries: Preserving indigenous languages of the Americas (2002): 60. Feeling, Durbin, ed. See-say-write: Method of Teaching the Cherokee Language. Cherokee Nation, Indian Adult Education, 2002. Feeling, Durbin, et al. "A handbook of the Cherokee verb: a preliminary study." Tahlequah, Okla.: Cherokee Heritage Center (2003). Feeling, Durbin, et al. "Why revisit published data of an endangered language with native speakers? An illustration from Cherokee." Language Documentation & Conservation 4 (2010): 1-21. Herrick, Dylan, Marcellino Berardo, Durbin Feeling, et al. "Collaborative documentation and revitalization of Cherokee tone." Language Documentation & Conservation 9 (2015): 12-31. Feeling, Durbin. Cherokee Narratives: A Linguistic Study. University of Oklahoma Press, 2018. References Cherokee language Linguists from the United States 1946 births 2020 deaths People from Mayes County, Oklahoma Military personnel from Oklahoma Northwestern State University alumni University of California, Irvine alumni Writers from Oklahoma Translation dictionaries American lexicographers American translators Cherokee Nation writers United States Army personnel of the Vietnam War Alumni of Native American boarding schools Language teachers Bacone College alumni University of Oklahoma faculty University of Tulsa faculty University of California faculty United States Army soldiers 20th-century Native Americans 21st-century Native Americans