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55-817: In November 2018, the ORL collaborated with the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) to open an on-campus branch to serve the UBCO community. In 2019 the first Makerspace was added to the ORL system at the Westside Learning Lab. Soon after a makerspace in the Downtown Kelowna, Vernon, Lumby, Golden, and Revelstoke library branches. Makerspaces are equipped with maker technologies including: 3D printers , recording studios , Cricut Makers , Glowforge laser cutters , and sublimation printers and heat presses. Patrons of

110-684: A first but is being learned as a second language by more than 40 adults and 35 children in the City of Spokane, Washington, and by several dozen adults on the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State and among Okanagan people in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. About 50 deeply fluent first-language speakers of Colville-Okanagan Salish remain, the majority of whom live in the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia. The language

165-487: A comprehensive community language revitalization strategy for Colville-Okanagan Salish. This school serves Colville-Okanagan people in the Spokane Metro Area. Salish School of Spokane serves both children and adults. SSOS currently (2021-22 school year) serves children aged 1 year old up to 9th grade with Salish immersion education. P-6 classrooms are 100% n̓səl̓xčin̓ immersion classes in which the language of instruction

220-533: A crucial time as the nsyilxcn language is critically endangered. The Paul Creek Language Association uses this alphabet: The letters with acute accent á , ə́ , í , and ú are not counted as separate letters in this alphabet. The Westbank First Nation uses this alphabet, in which the letters with acute accent are counted as separate letters: Consonant inventory of Colville-Okanagan: The vowels found in Lakes are: [i], [a], [u], [ə], and [o]. Stress will fall only on

275-691: A new distributed medical site, the Southern Medical Program at UBC Okanagan. Part of the program is also located in the Clinical Academic Campus building adjacent to the Kelowna General Hospital . Learning Commons Building, referred to simply as The Commons, opened in late 2018 as part of the UBC Okanagan Library expansion and contains study spaces, media labs, special collections and archives. The Innovation Precinct

330-576: A nonprofit based in British Columbia, on the N̓səl̓xcin̓ Curriculum Project. The N̓səl̓xcin̓ Project aims to create foundational lesson plans from which teachers of Okanagan can draw. The project is spearheaded by Christopher Parkin, and is translated primarily by the fluent elder Sarah Peterson, with the additional help of Hazel Abrahamson and Herman Edwards. The participation of native speakers ensures clear meaning and high fidelity to

385-540: A particular student population, however, they are open to all students. The campus' Collegia program has gained national attention as a home-away-from-home for its large commuter population. UBC Okanagan currently has two sororities and two fraternities. The Phoenix is the bi-weekly student newspaper at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. It was established in 1989 at the former Okanagan College. UBC Studios Okanagan and UBC Communications Services took over

440-686: A presence in Downtown Kelowna with UBC Innovation Library, located in the downtown Kelowna branch of the Okanagan Regional Library , and the Innovation UBC Hub, located in the Innovation Centre. UBC announced in June 2020 that it is planning to expand its presence in Downtown Kelowna by constructing a new 43 storey mixed-use tower on Doyle Avenue. Construction was approved in August 2023 and

495-427: A press conference, announcing that OUC would be dissolved. OUC's university operations would be consolidated at its North Kelowna Campus and would come under the University of British Columbia . The other programs and campuses of OUC would form a new community college, which would later take on the name Okanagan College . The OUC board was reportedly not invited to the press conference. It had not been told in advance of

550-619: A regular attendance of 30 or more people. Though the Confederation's efforts are laudable, the limitations of 50 truly native speakers are evident. Language revitalization on the scale the Confederation proposes is limited by the number of native speakers available for those projects. Despite the confederation's efforts, language revitalization cannot be reproduced on such a large scale in the short run. Salish School of Spokane (SSOS)(sƛ̓x̌atkʷ nsəl̓xčin̓ sn̓maʔmáyaʔtn̓) in Washington State has

605-450: Is 24.2-hectare (60-acre) land located at the bottom of the hill along Innovation Drive. UBC Endowment Lands (West Campus Lands) is 103.6-hectare (256-acre) agricultural land, which occupies the western half of the Okanagan campus along John Hindle Drive and contains UBC Plant Growth Facility. UBC Endowment Lands are part of ALR and are reserved for future research and recreational uses. It

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660-501: Is a campus of the University of British Columbia in Kelowna , British Columbia , Canada . This campus is the research and innovation hub in the province's southern interior, in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley and home to over 11,913 undergraduate and graduate students. UBC Okanagan has 62 undergraduate programs and 19 graduate programs. The current site of UBC Okanagan was initially used by Okanagan University College (OUC), which

715-471: Is currently moribund and has no first-language speakers younger than 50 years of age. Colville-Okanagan is the second-most spoken Salish language after Shuswap . Historically, Colville-Okanagan originated from a language which was spoken in the Columbia River Basin and is now termed Proto Southern Interior Salish. As a result of the initial expansion of Colville-Okanagan prior to European contact,

770-485: Is encoded into the meaning of the word via the inclusion of the gender suffix at the end of the sentence. Person markers within Colville-Okanagan are attached to verbs, nouns, or adjectives. The marker used depending on transitivity of verbs and other conditions outlined below. The person maker used largely depends on the case being used in the sentence. Absolutive markers within Colville-Okanagan can only be used if

825-583: Is expected to be completed in 2027. The building will include spaces for health programs, community engagement, and an art gallery. There is also a Southern Medical Clinical Academic Campus located at Kelowna General Hospital . According to the UBC Okanagan Campus Plan from September 2015, the next 20 years will see drastic expansion in research, teaching, student residence, and commercial spaces. A proposed 85,292-square-metre (918,080 sq ft) increase in academic space would more than double

880-499: Is highly collaborative, emphasizing direct student involvement to advance discoveries in fields of importance globally and locally. The Survive and Thrive Applied Research (STAR) initiative projects include control software for unmanned aerial vehicles. STAR creates a bridge between UBC Okanagan and industry, specializing in technologies for human protection and performance in extreme, remote, or rural conditions. UBCO has 15 research centres and 505 faculty members. The UBC Okanagan campus

935-444: Is not to be confused with University Endowment Lands , an unincorporated area adjacent to Vancouver where the UBC's Point Grey campus is located. Although the campus itself is located in a semi-rural area, it has a direct interchange with Highway 97 and Downtown Kelowna can be reached with 15 minutes of driving. It is also close to Kelowna International Airport . UBC Okanagan Exchange

990-566: Is n̓səl̓xčin and math, literacy, science, art, music and physical education are taught in n̓səl̓xčin. The school's programs are designed to spur full fluency in Colville-Okanagan by the age of 15. According to school expectations and curricula, children are expected to speak Colville-Okanagan for the duration of their time in school. In addition to programming for children, in July 2022, SSOS is also providing intensive n̓səl̓xčin training to more than 40 adults. Twenty-eight staff members at SSOS are enrolled in

1045-577: Is situated on a hill between Glenmore and Ellison in Kelowna. Street names are signed in English and Nsyilxcən language . The campus consists of Upper Campus, Lower Campus, Innovation Precinct, and Endowment Lands. The Lower and Upper Campuses are situated around the Courtyard and University Walk host the UBCO's core academic and administrative functions. Most institutional and administrative buildings are located on

1100-1068: Is the heritage language of the Lower Similkameen Indian Band , the Upper Similkameen Indian Band , the Westbank First Nation , the Osoyoos Indian Band , the Penticton Indian Band , the Okanagan Indian Band , the Upper Nicola Indian Band , and the Colville , Sanpoil , Okanogan , Lakes , Nespelem , and Methow bands of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation . According to nsyilxcən language keepers, words in

1155-462: Is the northern terminus of express bus route 97X Kelowna RapidBus , which provides Downtown Kelowna access in approximately 20 minutes. The exchange is a major transfer point for bus services to the Airport and beyond north to Lake Country and Vernon (bus route #23). The campus is also connected to the regional bikeway, Okanagan Rail Trail and John Hindle Drive Multi-use Pathway. UBC Okanagan also has

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1210-513: The British Columbia Progress Board submitted a report to the provincial government, recognizing the need to expand post-secondary education in the Okanagan. The board, chaired by the University of British Columbia president Martha Piper , recommended that the province extend "the mandate of an existing provincial University to Kelowna". In March 2004, British Columbia premier Gordon Campbell and UBC president Martha Piper held

1265-529: The En’owkin Centre. It is designed to work closely with the community to provide comprehensive and high-quality education and to promote new, fluent speakers with a deep understanding of the language, culture, and customs. UBCO is the first university in Canada and one of the first in the world to offer a degree program in an Indigenous language. This degree program will boost the number of fluent nsyilxcn speakers at

1320-785: The Lower Campus, including the UBC Okanagan Library , Learning Commons and the Transit Exchange . The adjacent Upper Campus contains most on-campus student housing and some institutional, childcare, and recreational buildings. The Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research (FIP) is a multi-purpose academic and research facility, including research labs, classrooms and teaching labs, offices, student commons, lecture theatre. The Arts and Sciences Centre (ASC), and Engineering, Management and Education Building (EME) were completed in 2011. The expansion of UBC Faculty of Medicine created

1375-635: The Okanagan language. The project is composed of six textbooks divided into three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Each level consists of a language book which contains a number of audio recordings, language, and learning software to ease language teaching. Additionally, each level includes a literature book. The literature book provides the vital function of providing entertainment for language learners when outside of class and also reinforces sentence construction for Okanagan. The project also contains daily quizzes, midterm-style tests, and both oral and written final exams for evaluation. Most importantly,

1430-504: The Okanagan participated in a referendum to decide whether to start a library system in the valley. After a majority voted "yes", the first Kelowna library, then called the Okanagan Union Library, was constructed. The original collection was 18,000 items, and served a population of about 25,000. University of British Columbia Okanagan The University of British Columbia Okanagan (also known as UBC Okanagan or UBCO )

1485-1072: The Paul Creek Language Association in Keremeos , British Columbia, the syilx Language House in Oliver, British Columbia, the En'owkin Centre in Penticton , British Columbia, the Hearts Gathered Waterfall Montessori in Omak , Washington, the Salish School of Spokane in Spokane , Washington, and the Inchelium Language and Culture Association in Inchelium . Revitalization efforts for Colville-Okanagan in

1540-516: The Salish Language Educator Development (SLED) program at SSOS. These staff members receive 90 minutes of immersion n̓səl̓xčin training daily as part of their work. Another 16 adults, parents of SSOS students, participate in paid afternoon and evening n̓səlxčin̓ fluency track training. All SSOS parents commit to completing at least 60 hours of n̓səl̓xčin̓ language classes per year in order for their children to be eligible to attend

1595-643: The Students' Union Okanagan of UBC office, meeting rooms, student club space, cafeteria and pub, cinema, multi-faith space, UBC Health & Wellness Clinic, learning centres, the Collegia, as well as Picnic, which is a new centre where students can seek mental and sexual health support. The university also maintains a Student Experience Office that organizes orientation programs, commuter Collegia spaces, volunteer opportunities, and mentorship options. Food establishments on campus are exclusively operated by UBC Food Services or

1650-458: The UBCO.TV functions and co-manages a YouTube channel. UBC Okanagan has the following faculties and schools: 49°56′23″N 119°23′47″W  /  49.9396°N 119.3963°W  / 49.9396; -119.3963 Okanagan language Okanagan , or Colville-Okanagan , or Nsyilxcən ( n̓səl̓xcin̓ , n̓syilxčn̓ ), is a Salish language which arose among the Indigenous peoples of

1705-688: The United States include instruction for children and intensive programs for training new adult speakers. However, concentrated efforts are made on the part of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation to promote language preservation. Among the activities in which the Confederation takes part are allocating funds both local and federal for cultural preservation projects. The Confederated Tribes' goals are to establish three language programs, develop language dictionaries, provide translation services and curriculum, and establish language classes with

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1760-530: The University of Victoria, and potential education assistants can be involved in the education of children, thus establishing fluency in Okanagan early on. Finally, the En'owkin Centre places a heavy emphasis on its college readiness programs. The importance of these programs lies not only in setting up Indigenous students for success, but also incorporating Colville-Okanagan courses into curriculum for young adult to adult students. William Cohen notes in his article, that many native students perform poorly in school and

1815-527: The certificate is offered in partnership with the University of Victoria . Additionally, the Centre also offers a certification to become a Certified Early Childhood Education Assistant which is in partnership with Nicola Valley Institute of Technology. The certificate does not qualify one to teach at the secondary level, but does ensure employability in daycare and pre-K. The strategy behind these two certificates ensures that potential teachers have easy access to college credits from centers of higher learning like

1870-481: The current capacity. The student residence is proposed to increase by approximately 2,200 beds to a total of approximately 3,900 beds. Commercial space would increase from 2,411 square metres (25,950 sq ft) to 4,561 square metres (49,090 sq ft). The additional space will remain within the main Okanagan campus, rather than expanding into the West Endowment Lands. Sustainability upgrades to 11 of

1925-416: The curriculum developed by the N̓səl̓xcin̓ Curriculum Project is available in electronic format online free of charge. To encourage interest in teaching vocations, the En'owkin places a strong emphasis on its various certification programs. The Certificate of Aboriginal Language Revitalization is offered in the En'owkin Centre and is taught by linguist Maxine Baptiste. The course does have a fee involved, but

1980-450: The existing buildings are also underway. Future projects include the newly constructed Nechako Commons Block building adjacent to the UNC (University Centre), additional residences, an engineering design building, a retrofit of a nearby industrial building billed as Innovation Precinct, and various other, more minor projects. The University Centre (UNC) contains many student services, including

2035-588: The following areas: Biology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Computer Sciences, Education, Engineering, English, Earth, and Environmental Sciences, Fine Arts, Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, Management, Mathematics, Medical Physics, Nursing, Psychology, and Social Work. Since its establishment in 2005, the research capability and researcher profiles have increased rapidly. Annual tri-council funding increased from $ 1.1M to $ 5.9M between 2005 and 2015. The total research funding reached $ 14.7M/year, with 714 projects in 2015. Research at UBC Okanagan

2090-515: The full vowels [i], [a], and [u] in Colville-Okanagan. The morphology of Colville-Okanagan is fairly complex. It is a head-marking language that relies mostly on grammatical information being placed directly on the predicate by means of affixes and clitics. The combination of derivational and inflectional suffixes and prefixes that are added onto the stem words make for a compact language. Colville-Okanagan demonstrates great flexibility when dealing with persons, number, and gender. The language encodes

2145-457: The high school dropout rate for aboriginal high schoolers is very high. Additionally, a Syilx Language House was developed in 2015 in British Columbia. The goal of the house is to create 10 fluent nsyilxcen speakers in four years. In this program, participants spend 2000 hours over four years learning nsyilxcen via a variety of different teaching methods, regular assessments, frequent visits from Elders, and full immersion. Following completion of

2200-581: The imminent demise of the OUC Board and removal or the termination of the majority of the OUC board members. According to the ministry backgrounder released at the time, the affiliation between UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan would be "based on the highly successful University of California model" and that "UBC Okanagan and UBC Vancouver will each have an independent senate to set academic priorities for their respective institutions, based regional needs and priorities. At

2255-535: The language developed three separate dialects: Colville, Okanagan, and Lakes. A low degree of dialectic divergence exists in terms of vocabulary and grammar. Variation is primarily confined to minor differences in pronunciation. The vast majority of Colville-Okanagan words are from Proto-Salish or Proto-Interior Salish. A number of Colville-Okanagan words are shared with or borrowed from the neighboring Salish , Sahaptian , and Kutenai languages. More recent loanwords are from English and French . Colville-Okanagan

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2310-639: The library are also able to borrow more than books. The ORL has a Library of Things (LoT) that houses different kits and technologies that are abled to be checked out for a period of time. Different kits in the LoT include: outdoor activity kits, Snap Circuits , birding backpacks, Sphero Bolt , Ozobot Evo , Code and Go Robot Mouse , Microscope , Home Energy thermal camera , radon detector , and carbon dioxide monitor . The Westbank Branch has an active writers group: Westbank Writers' Group. Members meet weekly to share and discuss their writings. In 1935, residents of

2365-843: The northern portion of the Columbia Basin from the Methow River in the west, to Kootenay Lake in the east, and north along the Columbia River and the Arrow Lakes, as well as the Slocan Valley . In Colville-Okanagan, all nsyilxcn -speaking bands are grouped under the ethnic label syil̓x . Syil̓x means "Salish" and is a cognate of the Spokane-Kalispel word, séliš, the enthnonym of the Bitterroot Salish people of Montana. Colville-Okanagan

2420-512: The nsyilxcən language should not be capitalized. As described in an Indiginews article, "In an egalitarian society, capitalization insinuates there is something that holds more importance over another, and that does not fall in line with syilx ethics". In 2012, the CBC featured a report on a family which is teaching its children n̓səl̓xcin̓ at home. Six nonprofit organizations which support Colville-Okanagan language acquisition and revitalization are

2475-470: The person via a series of prefixes and suffixes, and uses its number system in tandem with pluralized pronominals to communicate the number of actors within a sentence. For example: k- num. CL kaˀ- PL . REDUP kaˀɬis three k- kaˀ- kaˀɬis num.CL PL.REDUP three "There are three people" In this example the /k/ classification designates that the word contains a numeral classifier. Additionally, Colville-Okanagan relies heavily on

2530-463: The predicate of the sentence is intransitive. For example, [Kən c'k-am] (I count) is perfectly viable in Colville-Okanagan, but *[Kən c'k-ən-t] *(I count it)is not because the verb 'count' is transitive. Person markers never occur without an accompanying intransitive verb. Simple possessives within Colville-Okanagan are predominantly a result of prefixation and circumfixation on a verb. However, Colville-Okanagan uses simple possessives as aspect forms on

2585-623: The program in 2020, the Syilx Language House is hoping to expand by developing more language houses across the Okanagan and will increase the goal to creating 100 new nsyilxcn speakers in the 2020 cohort. Moreover, created in 2021 the University of British Columbia Okanagan (UBCO) offers the Bachelor of nsyilxcn Language Fluency (BNLF) program, that was created in collaboration with the Nicola Valley Institute of Technology (NVIT) and

2640-458: The same time, they will share a common board of governors, with strong representation from each region." UBC Okanagan offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate (Ph.D. & Masters) programs. There are more than 50 undergraduate programs in Arts, Education, Engineering, Fine Arts, Human Kinetics, Management, Media, Medicine, Nursing, and Sciences. The university also offers graduate programs in

2695-402: The school. SSOS offers free, beginning n̓səl̓xčin̓ (Colville-Okanagan) language classes on evenings and weekends for SSOS parents and other community members. At Salish School of Spokane, there are 35 intergenerational pairs- 35 immersion school students who have at least one parent who is studying n̓səl̓xčin in a fluency-track program. Salish School of Spokane makes a point of not falling into

2750-583: The southern Interior Plateau region based primarily in the Okanagan River Basin and the Columbia River Basin in precolonial times in Canada and the United States . Following British, American, and Canadian colonization during the 1800s and the subsequent assimilation of all Salishan tribes, the use of Colville-Okanagan declined drastically. Colville-Okanagan is highly endangered, is rarely learned as

2805-568: The students' union. Nechako Commons Block (NCH) adjacent to UNC houses the 500-seat Pritchard Dining Hall, providing all-you-can-eat food access for students on a meal plan. A campus convenience store, games and gym facilities, student housing, and business operations offices are also located in Nechako Commons Block. Common rooms known as Collegia were created for commuter students, containing kitchen facilities, study space, lounges and social areas. Each Collegium has theme and targeted for

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2860-422: The trap of monopolizing teaching resources. Unlike Walsh's examples of tribes opting to not share materials, Salish School maintains a variety of audio resources and curricula to advance Colville-Okanagan revitalization. Along with these efforts, the school not only provides curriculum, but also helps develop and translate it. The Salish School works alongside organizations such as the Paul Creek Language Association,

2915-400: The use of suffixes to designate gender. Okanagan handles gender in much the same way, by attaching both determiner and ‘man' to the sentence, the gender of an object or subject can be communicated: an-kɬ 2sgposs-to tkɬmílxʷ be-woman an-kɬ tkɬmílxʷ 2sgposs-to be-woman "She is your wife to be" In this example, there is a combination of 2nd singular marker with ‘wife.' ‘She'

2970-525: Was an exclusively oral form of communication until the late 19th century, when priests and linguists began transcribing the language for word lists, dictionaries, grammars, and translations. Colville-Okanagan is currently written in Latin script using the American Phonetic Alphabet . In Colville-Okanagan, the language itself is known as n̓səl̓xčin̓ or nsyilxcn . Speakers of n̓səl̓xčin̓ occupied

3025-468: Was founded in 1989 (in principle) as a part of a plan by the government to improve access to post-secondary education in the Southern Interior of British Columbia. Initially, degrees were awarded in partnership with other universities, but by 1995, the university college began granting degrees in its name. In the late 1990s, OUC started lobbying efforts to gain full university status. In December 2002,

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