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 ...

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 ...

See a video report of this story at www.spokesmanreview .com\blogs\video. “way’ sl’axt.” Hello, friend. Little by little, small groups of students are learning this simple phrase – and many more – in ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new font to typeset Salish languages is the result of a unique collaboration between UBC, Musqueam and Syilx What does reconciliation actually look like in practice? It’s often seen through policies ...

SPOKANE — For the first time in a couple generations, young people are speaking ancient words of hope for Native Americans on the brink of losing the first language of the Inland Northwest. Thanks to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...