The dream for a Salish immersion community began 15 years ago when the school was founded. "None of us, not even those founders, dreamed it could happen in our lifetime," said Randall Schleuffer ...

Students at the Nkwusm Salish Immersion School in Arlee concentrate last week during language lessons. The school, founded by four non-Salish speakers to keep the language alive, is 10 years old ...

Salish Middle School is a public school located in Lacey, WA, which is in a small city setting. The student population of Salish Middle School is 735 and the school serves 6-8.

Nkwusm school director Rosie Matt pages through the second edition of the Salish Language Translation Dictionary in the language school’s storage room, a former bowling alley. Some 4,000 copies ...

Catholic Charities gifted the Salish School more than 2 acres of land to allow the program to build expanded classroom spaces and a community recreational center.

After losing her mother, sister and brother to diabetes, Joilynn Loves Him decided to study health at Northwest Indian ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- In a significant step toward healing historical wounds, Catholic Charities transferred ownership of land along the Spokane River to Salish School of Spokane Wednesday afternoon.

The Salish School of Spokane has been given a significant gift from Catholic Charities Eastern Washington. The school received a parcel of tribal land along the Spokane River, ...

ARLEE (AP) -- In a language immersion school, every object has a label to remind students how to describe the world around them. So in a sense, the expansion project going on at Nkwusm Salish ...

About 300 kids from schools in Lolo and Missoula went through seven stations to learn Salish language, games and culture as part of the Gathering at Tmsmli event at Travelers’ ...

School board says reductions are necessary to balance the budget. Students and teachers say the cuts will create ‘a safety ...