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 ...

Celebrating Salish 2010, an intertribal native language conference, will be held Wednesday through Friday at the Northern Quest Resort and Casino. It will be attended by representatives of the ...

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Native American tribal members in the Pacific Northwest host an annual karaoke contest to keep their indigenous language, Salish, alive. If you were a teenage girl in 1997 you’d probably recognize the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Heron ...

ARLEE - 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 Pete's ...