Founder-Director

Federal trust relationship with American Indians

Indigenous issues ranging from spirituality and environment to education and land rights

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Twin Buttes, North Dakota

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

<html><head></head><body>On a recent trip to a language summit in Washington, D.C., Tachini Pete, executive director of the Nkwusm school on the Flathead Reservation, attended the three-day event. Here is <a href="http://salishworld.com/index.htm">a link to the Salish immersion school </a>in Arlee. Nearly 40 students are served at Nkwusm. Research shows that immersion schools are the sure way to save endangered languages, which are quickly disappearing. It’s estimated that some 70 native languages in the United States will become extinct in the next decade.
Jodi Rave
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On a recent trip to a language summit in Washington, D.C., Tachini Pete, executive director of the Nkwusm school on the Flathead Reservation, attended the three-day event. Here is <a href="http://salishworld.com/index.htm">a link to the Salish immersion school </a>in Arlee. Nearly 40 students are served at Nkwusm. Research shows that immersion schools are the sure way to save endangered languages, which are quickly disappearing. It’s estimated that some 70 native languages in the United States will become extinct in the next decade.

Jodi Rave

Salish language immersion school