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 ...

Salish School of Spokane has hired Joy Peltier to be their new development director as part of ongoing efforts to revitalize the Salish language, get their story out and connect with people who want ...

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 ...

If you were a teenage girl in 1997 you'd probably recognize the song "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys. But if you heard it in the Salish language, would you still be able to sing along? Keegan Aaron ...

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 ...

ARLEE – It was time for lunch last week on the third day of classes at Nkwusm Salish Immersion School, and Pat Pierre was getting young again. The Salish elder and Nkwusm language specialist had just ...

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. -- 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 cubbies, ...

SPOKANE (AP) — Members of the Spokane Tribe of Indians are mourning the death of an elder who played a key role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect and teaching the language to younger ...

Around 50 fluent Salish speakers remain today, and few are under the age of 75."That's always been my motivation, that other people could learn, not just me. I just want to provide the best tool they ...

If you were a teenage girl in 1997 you'd probably recognize the song "Everybody" by the Backstreet Boys. But if you heard it in the Salish language, would you still be able to sing along? Keegan Aaron ...