Leaders of the Salish School of Spokane ducked under ponderosa pine boughs and maneuvered around thorny shrubbery as they planned a brand new campus earlier this month. A sweat lodge here, a meat ...

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 ...

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.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Salish School of Spokane will receive federal funding to support their program and keep their native language alive.

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.

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...