Salish language student Josh Flett burns sage to cleanse the room during the inaugural ceremony for the N 3 pilot language program, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 at the Wellpinit Longhouse.

Nov. 22—"Our people were the first people to live on this land, and our people will be the last ones to leave it," Allen Pierre told the student body of the Alberton School District recently.

SAVING SALISH documents the ongoing fight N'kwusm faces to revitalize a dying language. Tucked within a valley on the Flathead Indian Reservation sits Arlee, Montana, a small town that is home to ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Salish School of Spokane will receive federal funding to support their program and keep their native language alive. The school, located near Garland District, teaches dozens ...

Nkwusm school director Rosie Matt pages through the second edition of the Salish Language Translation Dictionary in the language school’s storage room, a former bowling alley. Some 4,000 copies ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — The Salish language is native to many of our local tribes in the Inland Northwest, but sadly, not many tribal elders are left who are fluent speakers. Marsha Wynecoop, is the ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- For 13 years, the Salish School of Spokane has been fighting to preserve the several thousand-year-old language. On the inside, it looks like your typical classroom; there's ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — At the Salish School of Spokane, children learn, speak, and sing the Salish tongue. It's regarded as an endangered language with only two born native speakers left. The Spokane ...

The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) are flying flags at half-staff, through tomorrow, in honor of Tribal Elder Sophie “Supi” Martha Stasso Haynes, who passed away Saturday.

In his landmark "Map of North America from 84º West," he combined his own surveying ... But it does show that Thompson recognized a vibrant ongoing culture through their spoken Salish language.

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – No one can currently speak the Cowlitz Coast Salish language fluently, but Tribal leaders hope the language-learning materials they’re releasing now will result in more ...