This new placemat was given to the children at the Betty J. Taylor Early Learning Academy and also given out at a recent community event.
The placemat contains various phrases to use around the dinner table, as well as foods, utensils. and the Table song. A QR code directs your smart phone to a webpage, so you can listen to all the phrases, words and song.

There is another placemat that contains a simple prayer to be used at meals. Click on the links below to printout the placemats and listen.

Lushootseed Dining Room & Table Song

Lushootseed Dining Room & Prayer

Posters that include the prayer will be available in our office next week.

Most local school districts are having levy measures on the ballot. Make sure your ballots are dropped off at local ballot boxes, or in the mail by February 7th, to make sure it’s post marked by February 8th.

12th Annual Lushootseed Language Conference (2022): Cultural Vitality in the Time of COVID

When: April 23, 2022
Where:  On Zoom! and in person! at: UPDATED 4/6/2022
Seattle University, Fr. LeRoux Conference Room, Student Center 160
901 12th Avenue #222000
Seattle, WA 98122

Lushootseed Research is excited to announce we will be hosting the 12th Annual Lushootseed Language Conference on Saturday, April 23rd. The theme for this year’s conference is, Cultural Vitality in the time of COVID. We are inviting people to submit proposals for presentations that would be 15-30 minutes in length highlighting successes you’ve had with engaging community and students in Lushootseed language learning and activities during the pandemic. Please submit your proposal by Friday, February 18th @ 5:00 p.m. in order to be considered. Thank you.

Submit your proposal