Interior Salish

These pit houses were constructed in circular or squarish holes dug about 2 m deep and about 8 m in diameter.

Interior salish. The interior salish languages are one of the two main branches of the salishan language family the other being coast salish. States of washington idaho and montana. This book is the first in the n səl xc in curriculum project of six textbooks with accompanying materials that is being developed by salish school of.

The total curriculum when completed will include six textbooks divided into three levels. It can be further divided into northern and southern subbranches. The salish or séliš language ˈseɪlɪʃ also known as kalispel pend d oreille kalispel spokane flathead or to distinguish it from the salish language family to which it gave its name montana salish is a salishan language spoken as of 2005 by about 64 elders of the flathead nation in north central montana and of the kalispel indian reservation in northeastern washington state and by another 50 elders as of 2000 of the spokane indian reservation of washington.

This keyboarding system is designed to allow for efficient typing in english and in all southern interior salish languages. Colville okanagan kalispel spokane bitterroot coeur d alene and wenatchee columbian. Winner of the 2009 td canadian children s literature award.

Salish school of spokane has partnered with the colville tribal business council to begin to produce a comprehensive sequenced curriculum designed to help new learners become fluent in n xaʔm xci n wenatchee columbian salish. Click the icon to the right to download a pdf file of the n səl xc in 1 book by sʕamti c aʔ peterson larae wiley christopher parkin. Interior salish salish linguistic grouping of north american indian tribes speaking related languages and living in the upper basins of the columbia and fraser rivers and their tributaries in what are now the province of british columbia can and the u s.

Colville okanagan wenatchee columbian spokane kalispel bitterroot and coeur d alene. More songs for beginnings in colville okanagan salish this is another collection of kids song translated and recorded by sʕamti c aʔ peterson for kłyan qx u sn maʔma yaʔtn the paul creek language association sƛ x atkʷ n səl xc in. The first salishan people encountered by american explorers were the flathead people selish or seliš among the most easterly of the group.

This website is dedicated to promoting and sharing materials relating to the four southern interior salish languages. During the winter months interior salish lived in villages consisting of clustered semi subterranean dwellings known as pit houses here they existed on the food they had prepared and preserved at other times of the year. The keyboarding system was made for salish school of spokane and the kalispel tribe.