(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.
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: There are no immersion courses being offered at this time.
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.