<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Salish language taught at Tulalip culture camp</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">By Bill Sheets</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Tulalip, Washington (AP) August 2010</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">USA</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Stan Jones, 84, remembers only a smattering of words and phrases of the language he heard his grandmother speak many years ago.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">One of those phrases is a prayer that Jones, a longtime Tulalip tribal leader, offers at ceremonial events.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">“I pray our language will come back,” he said, half-kidding.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">That prayer is slowly coming true.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
<br style="font-family: georgia,serif;"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Jones looked around the Kenny Moses Building on Tulalip Bay last week and saw dozens of tribal children learning words and phrases in Lushootseed, the original language spoken by Salish tribes in the Puget Sound basin.</span><br style="font-family: georgia,serif;">
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