Most do not speak Klallam, even as a second language, though today it is taught at several of the peninsula’s schools. Ms Sampson was born in Jamestown, 60 miles from Seattle, ...

Port Angeles High School Klallam language teacher Jamie Valadez was one of the first to receive a set of the dictionaries, each about 4 inches thick. The delivery was fitting: Klallam is one of four ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. (AP) — Family and tribal members say the last person to have spoken the Klallam language from birth and the eldest member among Klallam tribes, Hazel M. Sampson, died Tuesday ...

PORT ANGELES — The language of the Klallam people took another deep breath last week. A 392-page hardcover tome, humbly titled Klallam Grammar, was cause for celebration at the Elwha Klallam Heritage ...

LITTLE BOSTON — When Donald Sullivan started taking classes to learn Klallam, his tribe’s language, he had flashbacks. Back to his childhood, at the table of Geneva Ives, his great-grandmother.

Adults employed by the school district and tribe keep tabs on the students’ academic progress and stand ready to help kids with anything from homework to getting on a video call. And for about 45 ...

PORT ANGELES, Wash. – The last person to have spoken the Klallam language from birth and the eldest member among the Klallam American Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest has died in Port ...

Klallam is the native language of the 5,000 or so people who today live on and around the three reservations on the Olympic Peninsula at Elwha, Jamestown and Port Gamble, ...

PORT ANGELES -- The last person to have spoken the Klallam language from birth and the eldest member among the Klallam American Indian tribes of the Pacific Northwest has died in Port Angeles at the a ...

The last known native speaker of the Klallam language has died in Port Angeles, Washington. Klallam is the language of three U.S. tribes as well as one in British Columbia. Hazel M. Sampson was 103.

OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) – The last known native speaker of the Klallam language, which the U.S. government once sought to phase out before funding an effort to preserve it, died in ...