Word Path: Connecting People to the Landscape and Traditional Indigenous Land Use through Language Preservation: A Collaborative Journey between the Kalispel Tribe of Indians and the Colville National Forest

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation will discuss the Colville National Forest Heritage Program’s collaboration with the Kalispel Tribe of Indians Language School on the reimagining of the Pioneer Park Heritage Interpretive Trail. The trail was constructed in the mid-1990s as mitigation for construction of a forest service dispersed campground on top of a Kalispel Winter Village. The trail incorporated the Salish language as it was understood at the time. The Kalispel Language School wanted to use the trail as an outdoor learning opportunity for its students. The forest and the school worked together on redesigning the trail to ensure a more meaningful experience for the students and visitors. This project has led to the CNF incorporating language preservation and indigenous land use in several other locations in Pend Oreille County and proposing additional bilingual trails in Ferry County in collaboration with the Colville Confederated Tribe.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Outreach and Education: Examples of Approaches and Strategies from the Pacific Northwest   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35681.0