When he began recording the words of a Native speaker 40 years ago, linguist Noel Rude had no idea that his life’s work would form the foundation of the first dictionary for the Umatilla language.

NMAI copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment. Summary "In Plateau Indian Ways with Words, Barbara Monroe makes visible the arts of persuasion of the Plateau Indians, whose ancestral grounds ...

Two new exhibits, displaying beadwork from cultures on opposite ends of the globe, open this month at the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture. “Plateau Pictorial Beadwork: The Fred L. Mitchell ...

Visitors to the Burke Museum can view historical and contemporary pieces that showcase American Indian cultures of the Plateau region of eastern Washington, Idaho and Oregon. The Burke is presenting ...

Sahaptin is a language family that encompasses the specific languages spoken by many high Plateau tribes in the Columbia River basin. Sahaptin-speaking peoples included the Umatilla, Walla Walla, Nez ...

SPOKANE, Wash. - Visitors to the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture over the last couple of months might've noticed a group of people carving canoes out of two one hundred year old cedar logs.

KENNEWICK – The ancient bones of the Kennewick Man have been returned to the ground. More than 200 members of five Columbia Plateau tribes and bands gathered at an undisclosed location over the ...

NORTH BEND — Andy Charles will present “The Material Culture of the Southern Plateau Indians,” a program featuring the items he has created using traditional techniques of the Native Americans ...