No, that's not correct. As I said elsewhere in the thread, my family is Wasq'u, and we spoke Kiksht, a dialect of Upper Chinook that Chinook Wawa borrows from.

No, that's not correct. As I said elsewhere in the thread, my family is Wasq'u, and we spoke Kiksht, a dialect of Upper Chinook that Chinook Wawa borrows from. The boardings schools implemented on the reservations had the stated and explicit purpose of obliterating the culture, customs, and especially language, of the indigenous people. If you hang out for any amount of time on the reservation, you know that people stopped teaching their kids the language because they were afraid of what would happen to them if they did not assimilate. The evidence is incontrovertible. There is no factual account that contradicts this. I would know -- my grandmother was the first Native American woman with 2 PhDs, and her thesis was literally about this. I have been steeped in this history since I was a child.