Fort Belknap College has embarked on an ambitious project in Montana to pull the Gros Ventre and the Assiniboine languages back from the brink. On the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation, where there are two principal tribes, only a handful of Gros Ventre, or White Clay, members are still fluent in the traditional tongue. The "tribal college" already offered classes in both the White Clay and Nakoda languages as part of the school's general curriculum, and in 2002, they started the Speaking White Clay Project, a mentorship program that matches eight Gros Ventre elders with eight young adults.