Stan Jones, 84, remembers only a smattering of words and phrases of the language he heard his grandmother speak many years ago. One of those phrases is a prayer that Jones, a longtime Tulalip tribal ...

In Maria Martin's preschool classroom at the Tulalip Montessori School, the children were learning to count to 10. "Two!" they shouted. But this lesson wasn't in English. "In Lushootseed!" Martin ...

As waves crash along the shores of Puget Sound, the descendants of the region’s earliest residents hear the words created by their ancestors. “They heard what the waves said x̌ʷəlč,” Zalmai Zahir said ...

The Swinomish Indian Tribal Community is ramping up efforts to revitalize its native language of Lushootseed, tribal officials said Wednesday. The Swinomish tribe has been working to revive its ...

This profile is one of a series on the contributions, cultural knowledge and strength of Native peoples in celebration of Washington state’s Indigenous peoples year-round. Puyallup Tribal member Chris ...

Mary Porter, a Sauk-Suiattle elder, hosts storytime on the first Wednesday and second Monday of each month at the Darrington library. DARRINGTON — Kids milled around, exploring the Darrington Library ...

Learn to speak Lushootseed online at BringBackTheDialogue.com. See videos that belong to the Tulalip Tribe that aim to maintain the language. We aren’t saying this is false advertising, but a beach ...