SPCC 40th Anniversary
Mussel Shell intro.
Animals Pronunciation
Mali
Hunting Ethics
River Honoring
Big Buck Bunny Salish
2012 Salish Karaoke Contest
1. Coyote Stories For Martin and Lucy
2. Martin, Lucy and Francis Go Sledding
3. Martin and Francis Go Ice Fishing
4. Martin's Surprise
5. Spring Is Finally Here
6. Francis and Martin's Medicine Tree Trip
7. Martin Goes Antler Hunting
8. Lucy's Camas Dig
More photos will be added periodically. If anyone has any information or comments on any of the photos that are displayed on this page, please contact the SPCC staff by email or by using the contact form. Please use the (SCC) photo ID tag number to identify the photo you wish to comment or provide information on. Lemlmtš Pesyaʔ
When the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes first established the Salish-Pend d’Oreille Culture Committee (SPCC) in 1974-75, the small staff asked culturally knowledgeable elders to come in and teach what they knew. The elders responded by generously sharing their songs and stories — almost all in the Salish language, many of them handed down through tribal tradition from time immemorial. The staff recorded the elders on simple cassette tape machines. And from that humble beginning, the SPCC developed one of the world’s finest and most extensive archives of tribal oral history and culture.
The SPCC is working on a series of books that will include many excerpts from those recorded oral histories. Now, readers will have access not only to transcripts of the recordings, but also to the recordings themselves: the voices of tribal elders. It is their voices that we honor, respect, and put forward as the authorities on Salish-Pend d’Oreille language and culture. We hope this website will serve as a powerful way in which the elders can directly teach our language, our history, and our culture. Additional files will be made available as staff time allows for all SPCC books and projects.
Antoine "Tony" Incashola, Sr. November 10, 1946 - June 7,2022 . An illustrated remembrance of Tony will be posted here soon. Please check back - thank you everyone.
The Séliš-Ql̓ispé Culture Committee was first created in 1974-75 in response to the urgent concern of many traditional elders that we needed to take strong action to ensure that our culture would be carried on by the younger generations, and by the generations yet to come. Since that time, we have worked hard in many areas to ensure that both our language and way of life will always survive and flourish.
The elders are now constituted as the Selis Qlispe Culture Committee Elders Cultural Advisory Council, a group of culturally knowledgeable elders whose wise oversight and direction shapes both the long-term goals and daily work of the Culture Committee staff.
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