Siyo! Aya Gvhe dagwado'a, nogwo Tsunatokiasdiyi geha. Pαnawάhpskewi wαpánahki, nočəyewe Tsunatokiasdiyi, nətəli-wisi Pə̀so. I live in the place where the horses race. I am an Eastlander from the Penobscot river, I am called Bobcat.

Nicholas Thorne is a Penobscot teacher in Asheville, NC. Living far from the land of his people in the North East, he has learned everything about himself from the land of the Cherokee people. Humans have called this land home for over 16,000 years, from when mammoths and bison roamed these once ancient forests. With a bachelor's degree in ecology, from UNC Asheville, Nicholas works to understand how the land's most familiar relatives describe the land and our experiences with it. For countless generations, Tsalagi (Cherokee) has been used to describe these mountains and their relatives. Nicholas uses language and stories to provide multicultural perspectives of the world's ecosystems, including Asheville. Named Bobcat, after his great uncle John Sapiel, he plans to teach on Native reservations across the country. Inspiring future generations, through the languages and stories of the land's most intimate relatives, is how he walks in the way of his ancestors. Wskitkámikʷe nətαnkawαčəmówewα. "The upper world, I translate for them.”