The Visual Languages That Connect Us opens at the Bill Reid Gallery of Northwest Coast Art in Vancouver on Feb. 14 and runs ...
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 ...
In an effort to expand their support in language revitalization, Salish School of Spokane has partnered with the new nonprofit Indigenous Fluency Now in British Columbia, which will take the lead on ...
“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, ...
White-Hill is the guest curator of Bill Reid Gallery’s upcoming exhibition, Every River Has a Mouth, the institution’s first show dedicated to Salish art since 2017. The show came about after curator ...
MONTANA – In Montana, Kootenai elder Wayne McCoy is on a mission to keep the Kootenai language alive. Wayne, a language instructor at Salish Kootenai College, emphasizes the importance of speaking the ...