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 ...

When Salish School of Spokane Founder LaRae Wiley set out to learn the endangered indigenous language of her ancestors, she ...

CUSICK, Washington – Teacher Nalene Andrews sat in a circle with six children during a Sept. 27 class as she used hand signs and repeated sentences in her native language. The first- and ...

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 ...

MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) — 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, ...

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 ...

Salish is the language of the Inland Northwest. For thousands of years, since time immemorial, the language has been spoken by the various people of the Columbia Plateau — the Spokane, Kalispel, ...

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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...