Pauline Flett (1926-2020)
Members of the Spokane Tribe of Indians are mourning Pauline Flett, an elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect and teaching the language to younger generations.
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Pauline Flett, a Spokane Tribe elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect, teaches a course in 1983. The word on the board means “good.” Flett died on April 13, 2020, at age 93.
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Pauline Flett, a Spokane Tribe elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect, sits beside a filing cabinet filled with her notes at the tribe’s education center in Wellpinit on Jan 30, 2020. Flett died on April 13 at age 93.
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Pauline Flett, a Spokane Tribe elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect, stands with her mother, Salina Pascal, in 1989. Flett died on April 13, 2020, at age 93.
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Pauline Flett, a Spokane Tribe elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect, teaches a course at the Cheney Cowles Museum in 1993. Flett died on April 13, 2020, at age 93.
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Pauline Flett (far right) and other members of a Spokane Tribe heritage committee hold tribal artifacts taken from ancient burial sites along the shores of Lake Roosevelt in 2003. Flett died on April 13, 2020, at age 93.
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Pauline Flett, a Spokane Tribe elder who played an instrumental role in preserving the tribe’s Salish dialect, takes notes under the shade of an umbrella in 2016. She and other leaders of the tribe’s education programs were taking fourth-graders on a field trip to the woods outside Wellpinit to gather traditional foods. Flett died on April 13, 2020, at age 93.
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