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Syilx Language House adult program FILMS


Adult learners share an evaluation film each year

Storytelling 1-yr fluency presentations
April 1, 2021
550 hours of fluency and look what they can do 

4th Year qłnun̓tm̓ student interviews June 2019  
We completed our 4 year program. Uploaded April 16, 2020 ​

4th Year Čaptíkʷł 3 Storytelling film  
uploaded ​Jan 2, 2019


3rd Year Video by Shaw TV at SLH
Tamie Williams & Doug Brown. uploaded March 4, 2018

2nd Year Learning by teaching
uploaded August 30, 2017

1st year Learning by doing – Spring 2016
 
uploaded Aug 12, 2016

Elders Storytelling Night Feb. 23, 2016
uploaded Aug. 12, 2016

Language House BLOG by Sk̓awilx & Qʷyqʷʕayáx̌n

10 Days of Winter sung in N̓syilxčn̓ by 4th year students

uploaded Dec 19, 2018

Nsyilxcn 1 Evening Classes at WFN Nov.2019-June 2020

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Review Lessons 19, 24, 29, 35 & 37

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Review Lessons 13, 3, 4, 5 & 8

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Lesson 39 Teaching video

N̓syilxčn̓ 1 - Lesson 38 Teaching Video

SLH in the media & publications

​Syilx Language House welcomes 10 new language warriors  - Kelowna Now story covering the 2021/22 cohort graduation. April 2022.

Keeping Indigenous languages alive for future generations - CBC Radio interview with Michele Johnson & LaRae Wiley regarding the International Decade of Indigenous Languages. 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. (Our N1 and C1 evening class celebrated 7 months graduation). June 2020.

Syilx Language Program comes to West Kelowna - Kelowna Capital News interview with Krista Lindley & Michele Kay Johnson. November 2019.

Critically Endangered Language Being Brought Back to Life - interview with Michele Johnson, January 2019.

Saving a Culture - Media blurb on SLH, January 2019.

Syilx Language House celebrates special milestone as graduation gets closer - Oliver Chronicle. December 2017.

Syilx Language House: How and Why We Are Delivering 2,000 Decolonizing Hours in Nsyilxcn - Michele Johnson for the Canadian Modern Language Review, November 2017.

Breathing Life into New Speakers: Nsyilxcn and Tlingit Sequenced Curriculum, Direct Acquisition, and Assessments - Michele Johnson for the Canadian Modern Language Review, May 2017.

Increasing Adult Fluency in the Tlingit Language​ - Citation about Dr. Michele Johnson and the "Language House" method from Xh'unei Lance Twitchell, Tlingit language warrior. An estimate that it takes 6,000 hours (2 hours a day for TEN years) to reach advanced fluency. June 2016.
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n̓łəqwcin (clear speech) : 1,000 hours to mid-intermediate N’syilxcn proficiency ​- Dr Michele Johnson's PhD thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013.

Knxčútn̓s "Helper" video supplements to SSOS N̓səlxčin̓ 1

SLH alumni Jordan Coble & Levi Bent with Westbank First Nation and First Peoples' Cultural Council present supplemental videos to accompany the Salish School of Spokane's introductory curriculum. These wonderful helper videos, 6 minutes each, give a taste of each of the 45 lessons in Textbook 1. Plus, they are fun.

Find the videos here.

To access the complete series of books, audio, and lesson plans to which these videos accompany, please visit interiorsalish.com and click N̓səlxčin̓ Curriculum to find free downloads. 

Language revitalization links

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN 2007)

Indigenous Languages Recognition, Preservation & Revitalization Report (FPCC 2016) 

Task force on Aboriginal Cultures Report (2005)
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Report on the status of BC First Nations Languages (FPCC 2014)

Learning Tlingit through Story (Paul Creek model of writing curriculum) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NdG-VePBHo&t=2s 
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