Preserving the Lushootseed language for the next generation (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

May 06, 2010

Preserving the Lushootseed language for the next generation

Once spoken by thousands of Coast Salish people in this area, Lushootseed
was almost lost. Now the battle to save and revive the language is making
progress.

By Holly Taylor
USA

The notion that we do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, but rather,
we borrow it from our children, has become a cliché of the environmental
movement. But could the same thing be true of a language?

Lushootseed tribal language teachers, students, and advocates from around
Puget Sound gathered at a conference on Saturday (May 1) to celebrate the
rich cultural inheritance of their Puget Salish language, but also to assess
the language's chances of survival in the 21st century. The conference,
hosted by Seattle University, was guided by the idea that today's
Lushootseed speakers are taking care of the language for the next
generation.

Access full article below:
http://crosscut.com/2010/05/06/tribes/19787/Preserving-the-Lushootseed-language-for-the-next-generation/
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