<div dir="ltr"><font size="4"><b>April Charlo is new NKWusm Executive Director<br></b></font><br>By Adriana Fehrs<br>March 13, 2014<br><br>ARLEE — April Charlo accepted her new role as the Executive Director of the NkWusm Salish Language Institute on February 5. She has high hopes of making her time there a positive mark in history for the Salish language and culture.<br>
<br>Charlo grew up in Arlee. She was homeschooled until the age of twelve by her mother. She says, “Being out on the land, and learning about traditional native ways was always important to me; I became bonded with the natural world.” She continued on to higher education at SKC, where she obtained an associate’s in Native American Studies and a Bachelor’s in Elementary Education in 2009. Charlo went on to further continue her education at the University of Montana, and obtained her Master’s in Educational Leadership in 2011.<br>
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