Stephen Smallsalmon Interview 2008 - Salish Version

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Published 2008-09-26
Interview with Stephen Smallsalmon at Nkwusm on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Recorded & Edited by Chaney Bell

All Comments (11)
  • @Phuqker
    Fascinating. I've never heard Salish spoken. Amazing consonant combinations!
  • @MunLeanDearsu
    The sounds... for all those consonants it's surprisingly euphonic.
  • @Ecolinguist
    Amazing language! Polish pronunciation is a piece of cake in camparison to that :)
  • beautiful, these salish dialects need to be passed on,i want to learn the shuswap dialect.
  • 1:26 'come on up East Hampton to Donna, will then wisdoms total test tempt you to acquiesce to some damn to circus' that's some fine wisdom right there.
  • @louiserocks1
    Я слышала "я сказал в конце концов" много раз
  • @jbjaguar2717
    I turned on automatic captions, and genuinely thought it was a real translation talking about some dudes named 'William' and 'Jim' for about 10 seconds.
  • @harryzhang1435
    Coast Salish languages sound good and sound like Hebrew.
  • 🦊,....A lot of the language is made up ( house,car,boots,mother,money,and the word meth , German word ) 500 years of molestations and torture ( dogma ) now all a sudden people know traditions,.....👌..right ‘aboriginals didn’t name people,places and things ,....true humbleness,..... otherwise we would be at war ,...no ‘,...u can’t name that ‘ that that already has a name ,....naming this and that ‘would be a wast of time ,...my elders spoke by the sentence/s and/or paragraph/s with both hands of sign the left is the definition (up to seven signs and the right hand feeds the left ) now we speak ,.... English ‘ one word at a time,.....all I’ll 2 the eagle 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾