Salish language student Amelia Mendoza holds her 4-month-old son Jalen, during the inaugural ceremony for the pilot language program on Monday at the Wellpinit Longhouse. Mendoza hopes the first words ...

This week’s cover of the Inlander is completely in Salish. We are celebrating the language and culture of the Interior Salish people in the Nov. 17 edition of the paper, and for the first time in the ...

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 of ...

ARLEE - In a language immersion school, every object has a label to remind students how to describe the world around them. So in a sense, the expansion project going on at Nkwusm Salish Language ...

As a member of the Sinixt band of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, local author and artist Emma Noyes is devoted to continuing her family’s storytelling traditions and promoting ...

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 Salish ...

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 Language ...

WELLPINIT, Stevens County — Felicia Pichette was overjoyed the first time her grandson told her “no.” It wasn’t what he said, but how he said it: in Spokane Salish, the endangered Indigenous language ...

MISSOULA, Mont. -- More than 200 Indigenous languages in the United States have gone extinct in the last 400 years, according to the Language Conservancy. Aspen Decker, a University of Montana ...

ARLEE (AP) — Four thousand new doses of medicine for the Salish language arrived at the Nkwusm language immersion school in Arlee this summer. The second edition of Nkwusm executive director Tachini ...

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. The ...