All three spend the larval stages of their lives munching nettle leaves before hatching into beautiful adult orange-and-black ...

"None of us, not even those founders, dreamed it could happen in our lifetime," said Randall Schleuffer, the board president of Salish Schools. Catholic Charities will also soon start construction ...

Students from the Salish School celebrated with traditional ... were forcibly removed from their families and sent to boarding schools designed to erase their culture and force assimilation ...

A large factor in the lack of Salish speakers today is the lingering effects of forced assimilation at Native American boarding schools, present in the United States and Canada from the 1800s to ...

For most of these students, hanging out and interacting with their peers by themselves is not an experience they could get in mainstream public schools, where they would communicate with others ...

Robert Woodcock with the Séliš-QỈispé Culture Committee asked a group of more than a dozen students if any of them wanted to help him build a teepee. About half the group shot their arms up ...

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’ Rest State Park in ...

Salish School of Spokane, we think, is one of two full-time Native American immersion schools in the lower 48 that are located in an urban setting. Our understanding is that there's an Ojibwe ...

Nkwusm now has 39 regular students in preschool through high school grades. It's divided into three multi-age classes, each with a certified teacher, a fluent Salish speaker and a teacher's aide.