(Squaxin Masters & Apprentice, 2008: Aleta Poste) (NILI Summer Institute, 2008: (L-R) Verleen Holliday, Norma A. Joseph, Lynn Brannen)
Welcome to the new pugetsalish.com web site. We have a whole new layout that includes much more content.
NEW! Free Downloads has been expanded. It now includes teaching materials, translattions and other documents. If you have authored materials you would like posted at pugetsalish.com for free download, please send your information to zalmaizahir@msn.com.
Courses: We are offering Puget Salish/Lushootseed classes for summer quarter.
CD-ROM Courses for WIN: There are five different CD-ROM (WIN) courses to choose from. Courses start on Monday, June 22, 2009. You can now pay tuition and purchase course materials online using PayPal. Click on the CD-ROM Courses for WIN for more information.
Immersion Courses: From June 22nd through July 3rd, 2009, the Norwest Indian Language Institute (NILI) will be holding a 2-week language institute for teachers at the University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. Along with a full-immersion Lushootseed language course, the institute will also be teaching courses in teaching methods, computer technology, classroom materials and technology, linguistics, Sahaptin, Chinuk Wawa, and Tolowa. The NILI Summer Institute is an excellent opportunity for language teachers to gain hands-on knowledge of linguistics, teaching and material development. If you are interested in attending, or would like more information, please go to the NILI website at http://www.uoregon.edu/~nwili/.
eShop: It is now possible to purchase Puget Salish/Lushootseed materials online using Pay Pal. There are several good language materials for purchase. They include text books, audio CDs, children’s books and Lushootseed cultural books. In particular, ‘Puget Sound Geography Original Manuscript from T. T. Waterman’ covers hundreds of Lushootseed place names gathered at the beginning of the 20th century.
These materials are useful to educators, linguists, anthropologist, historians, scholars, Lushootseed students, etc. For more information, go to the eShop tab.
About Lushootseed: Read a short summary of Lushootseed.
Interactive programs: Pugetsalish.com has interactive programs where you can listen, read and learn some of the basics of Puget Salish/Lushootseed. Go to Interactive programs to begin.
About us: Read about who are some of the people behind efforts to revive, stabilize and archive Puget Salish/Lushootseed and contact information.
At this time, Zalmai Zahir is the only person listed. If you are involved in working with Lushootseed, and would allow us the honor of listing your information, please submit a brief paragraph or two about yourself. This might include your name, where you are from, how you learned or are learning Lushootseed, what are you doing with Lushootseed, and contact information. A photo would also be nice. Send your information to zalmaizahir@msn.com.
For more information, go to About us.
Contacts: For general information about who to talk to concerning pugetsalish.com, go to Contacts.
Guestbook: If you’d like to leave a general note, or would like to be on the E-mailing list for upcoming pugetsalish.com events and news, please take time to sign the Guestbook.
Free Downloads: Go to Free Downloads to get the Puget Salish/Lushootseed font: fontootseed. This will allow you to type Lushootseed on any Windows based platforms.
NEW! Free downloads has been expanded. It now includes teaching materials, translattions and other documents. If you have authored materials you would like posted at pugetsalish.com for free download, please send your information to zalmaizahir@msn.com.
Coming Soon:
Links: We will be adding links to other Lushootseed, language, cultural and education sites. If you are the administrator of a site you would like to have linked to pugetsalish.com, send your link and information to zalmaizahir@msn.com.
Forum: A forum for Lushootseed questions and answers will be coming soon.