[2] Her father, William Hall, founded the first Indian Shaker Church on the Olympic Peninsula in Dungeness, Washington, circa 1910.

[1] Timothy Montler, a professor of linguistics at the University of North Texas, began working on Klallam language preservation beginning in 1990.

[2] Montler and Valdez collaborated closely with local native speaking Klallam, including Hazel and Ed Sampson, Adeline Smith and Bea Charles.

[1] In 1999, Montler published several guidebooks and lesson plans aimed at teaching Klallam language basics through storytelling.

"[1] Adeline Smith died in March 2013, leaving Sampson as the last surviving, native speaker of the Klallam language.

[1][2] Her death marked the passing of the last native speaker of Klallam, though some younger members continued to speak it as a second language.