In an effort to resuscitate the endangered language specific to the Spokane people, Salish teacher Sulustu founded nonprofit Spokane Language House and in October embarked on the first classes in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. -- 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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The main purpose of the school,” says Salish language specialist, Pat Pierre, who has taught at the school since the beginning, “is to bring the identity back to our people through our children, ...

WELLPINIT – Marsha Wynecoop was 7 years old when she heard the most beautiful sound. Nestled between her grandparents, she listened uncomprehendingly to the two exchange words in Spokane Salish, the ...