[5] The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, died in July 2012.
[6][7][8] Two new speakers were teaching Kiksht at the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in 2006.
[9] The Northwest Indian Language Institute of the University of Oregon formed a partnership to teach Kiksht and Numu in the Warm Springs schools.
[10][11] Audio and video files of Kiksht are available at the Endangered Languages Archive.
[12] The last fluent speaker of the Wasco-Wishram dialect was Madeline Brunoe McInturff, and she died on 11 July 2006 at the age of 91.