EUGENE, Ore. — When his foreign language instructor says something, University of Oregon freshman Carson Viles knows it's important to pay attention. "I might never get a chance to hear that phrase ...
Virginia Beavert, also known as Tuxámshish, is a Yakama Nation elder and one of Northwest Indian Language Institute's founders. Beavert, who turned 100 years old in November, has been a key figure in ...
Tucked away in a wing of the Yakima Central Library earlier this month was a session of an ongoing class meant to help keep an endangered Indigenous language alive. The instructor taught the attendees ...