03/02/2022 · Lushootseed Department is now located at the old Tulalip Elementary building at 7736 36th Ave NW Tulalip, WA 98271. The building is located in front of the Betty Taylor Early Learning Academy. Telephone: 360-716-4495 Fax: 360-716-0800

Lushootseed is the indigenous language of the Puget Sound and beyond. Since contact with settlers, tribes have suffered great losses of language. Today the Tulalip Tribes has a Lushootseed Language department which serves to revitalize the language amongst tribal members through many learning opportunities.

The tribes speak English and Lushootseed, a Central Salish language. The language is written in the Latin script. A dictionary and grammar have been published. The tribe established its own language department in the 1990s to promote and preserve the …

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20/06/2020 · The Tulalip Tribes used Juliet Shen's font to create a coloring book, to teach children the Lushootseed language. About a decade ago, Juliet Shen took on dream project. Shen, a typeface designer and artist, was commissioned by the Tulalip Tribes to create a new font specifically for Lushootseed , the now endangered language used by most of the coast Salish …

In particular, though these legends come from the Lushootseed-speaking Puget Sound Salish tribes (such as the Skagit, Tulalip, and Snoqualmie tribes,) the traditional stories of other Coast Salish peoples like the Squamish and Saanich tribes are very similar.

The Snohomish Lushootseed spoken at Tulalip exhibits features of both Northern and Southern language, though it is usually categorized as “Northern.” The Tulalip Tribes Lushootseed Department is dedicated to increasing awareness of Lushootseed within the community and beyond, as well as to restoring the language to everyday use within the community.

Tulalip Heritage High School Lushootseed Weather, Events and Birthdays. Lushootseed.