Note to editors: Photos illustrating this research and other associated press materials can be found via Dropbox here (password: mutton). Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

For millennia before Europeans colonized what is now called the Pacific Northwest, small, fluffy, white “woolly dogs,” known as sqwemá:y in one language of the Coast Salish peoples, roamed the coast.

Researchers from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History recently studied and analyzed a 160-year-old pelt of an extinct woolly dog, part of a breed that Indigenous Coast Salish communities ...

CounterPoint Press Publishing Northwest author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe’s newest book is called Thunder Song. It’s a collection of essays examining the intersection of her Indigenous ancestry, Coast ...

Shandin Pete remembers looking at the night sky as a child with wonder, and asking his grandfather what their Salish ...

The history of western Montana through two centuries and two cultures will be revealed in a University of Montana Continuing Education class this month. Anthropologist Sally Thompson, Salish-Kootenai ...

The flag of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will now stand alongside the United States and Montana state flags in the Sophie Moiese Room at the Missoula County Courthouse in an effort by ...

Full-body forensic reconstruction of a woolly dog based on a 160-year-old pelt in the Smithsonian’s collection as well as archaeological remains. The reconstructed woolly dog stands against a stylized ...