Keeping Indigenous languages alive for future generations - CBC Radio interview with Michele Johnson & LaRae Wiley regarding the International Decade of Indigenous Languages, adult fluency programs, and the Salish School of Spokane immersion school. December 2021.
Realistic Solutions to Creating Grassroots Fluency: N'syilxcn excerpt of Dr. Michele Johnson's keynote address at the “Restoring and Protecting Our Native Languages and Landscapes” Conference, published in Cultural Survival Quarterly Magazine. December 2021.
Academic publication written by SLH staff with a transcribed Elder's narrative. Elder Story transcription published in UBC Working Papers in Linguistics. July 2020.
Despite Challenges, Syilx Nation language students celebrate graduation (over zoom) -Kelowna Capital News. (N1 and C1 evening class started in person at WFN. SLH was an early adopters of zoom delivery when the program was sideswiped by the global pandemic, to finish their 7 month program with 100% retention. The language was our medicine each week). June 2020.
knxčútn̓s "Helper" video supplements to N̓səlxčin̓ 1
SLH alumni Jordan Coble & Levi Bent, supported by Westbank First Nation and First Peoples' Cultural Council, created fun videos to accompany the Salish School of Spokane's introductory N1 curriculum. These videos, 6 minutes each, give a taste of each of the 45 lessons in Textbook 1.
To access the complete series of textbooks, audio, and lesson plans to which these videos accompany, please visit interiorsalish.com and click N̓səlxčin̓ Curriculum to find free downloads.