Articles with the Tag: Nkwusm
News from Alex Sakariassen, Montana Free Press MONTANA — Montana’s Office of Public Instruction on Friday opened public comment on a raft of proposed rule changes impacting the Montana Indian Language Preservation Program, a decade-old initiative to bolster Indigenous language proficiency in...
ARLEE – Supporting a local food system and promoting healthy eating habits will be Jenny Fowler’s focus in her new position. She will serve as the Arlee Community Development Corporation’s new food sovereignty associate. The Arlee CDC facilitates projects “deemed to be beneficial s...
ARLEE – Learning a language can be easier as a small child and that’s why staff members at the Nkwusm Salish Language School were thrilled to get a grant to expand their preschool. “We had to turn kids away at the beginning of this year,” said April Charlo, Nkwusm’s executive...
Shelly Fyant, Arlee Tribal Council, decided it was time to honor the local elders from all cultures, so she organized a brunch at the Community Center on Friday and invited several dozen elders and children from the Nkwusm language school. “I wanted to give back to my community,” Fyant said. &...
Melissa and Adrian Mahseelah might be getting a better night’s sleep now that Halloween is over. When they expanded their annual haunted house into their home, vampires took over their bedroom. Dinner was still at the family’s table but the plates were filled with guts and eyeballs. Zombie babies...
PABLO — Kids were dancing, kids were playing double ball, kids were learning about correct hand washing and teeth brushing and kids were planting peppers and beans at the children’s health fair on April 30. The health fair came about because Salish Kootenai College Bachelor of Science in Nursi...
POLSON — From a listening session with the state’s eight tribal leaders in Missoula on Sept. 4, Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, and Senator Jon Tester continued on to the Flathead Reservation on Sept. 5. “Jon said I had to see Montana,” Cantwell said, since she is chair...
ARLEE — The Arlee community held a powwow in honor of two Nkwusm Salish Language Institute graduates last weekend, celebrating their achievement with prayer, song, dance, food and drums. Graduates Mars Sandoval and Nicole Perry will attend Arlee High School in the fall, and while both said they were...
Nkwusm has had a very busy academic fall quarter. Enrollment has reached 36 students in our pre-kindergarten through eighth-grade classes. This is the largest number of students we have seen in recent years. Testing has been provided to Nkwusm students to determine benchmarks for Salish, reading and math. St...
ARLEE — The 2012-13 academic school year has begun at Nkwusm Salish Language Revitalization School in Arlee. Nkwusm, a nonprofit organization, not only teaches children, preschool through eighth grade, the Salish language and the Salish and Pen d’Oreille tribal cultures, but provides all the acad...
