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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

TULALIP – Some of the students in the Lushootseed Language Class at the Tulalip Indian Reservation are as young as 5 years old, but their teachers have given them an important mission. “I let my ...

TULALIP — Last Thursday, the children in Sarah Poyner Wallis’ kindergarten class at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary School filtered in after the morning assembly. Maria Martin and Nik-Ko-Te St. Onge, ...

The first sight Zalmai “Zeke” Zahir would see most mornings growing up in Seattle and on the Muckleshoot reservation was the white-capped grooves of Mount Rainier. A linguist, Zahir recently published ...