Illumination Native Community Gathering
Learn about the work Springfield's Native story team is doing with the Springfield History Museum to explore and celebrate the American Indian and Alaska Native history and experience in Springfield and rural east Lane County. Enjoy food and be in community as the Springfield History Museum holds space to listen and learn from you about how you want to celebrate this collection of video interviews, photos and history of our local Native peoples.
This program is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities.
Finding Common Ground Speaker Series: Centering Native Voices
Join Harney County Library to learn about the many ways communities of diverse perspectives collaborate to solve the complex challenges we face here in frontier rural America, from natural resource management to economic development. This month's speaker is Native writer and activist Jacqueline Keeler. Funding for this program is provided by Oregon Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Oregon Cultural Trust.
Stephanie Craig discussion on “Fear & Belonging”
Creswell Public Library present an evening discussion with Stephanie Craig, a Kalapuya woman on traditions, the loss of those traditions, and reclaiming or continuing them. What is more terrifying than watching cultural traditions move from the active world to a museum? And do cultural artifacts belong in museums, and if so, which museums do they belong to? Stephanie is an expert on Kalapuya weaving who makes replica baskets for museums and works to pass her knowledge on.
This event is supported by a grant from Oregon Humanities
Reclaiming Our Language
How Klamath people are working to revitalize their language. By Ke-ash Ne-Asht Sheshatko
Portrait of Eugene Landry: Artist talk/reading with curator Judith Altruda
“Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe” brings together the artwork of Eugene Landry (1937-1988) with contemporary Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe artists and writers as they explore their cultural roots, tribal identity, and connection to ancestral land. Landry’s artwork offers a look at the political, economic, and cultural challenges the tribe faced during his lifetime—from near termination to federal recognition. Paralyzed by illness as a young man, Landry created his art from a wheelchair, using his non- dominant hand. Conversations with his former portrait models (now tribal elders), reveal his creative resilience and the positive impact he had in their young lives. Now, 35 years after Landry’s passing, a rediscovered collection of Landry’s art inspires a new generation of Shoalwater Bay artists. "Portrait of Eugene Landry—an Artist, a Time and a Tribe" will be on view at Astoria Visual Arts November 11 through December 2.
The exhibit opens with a reading with curator Judith Altruda and guests from the Shoalwater Bay Tribe
This exhibit is supported by a Public Program Grant from Oregon Humanities
Sacred Instructions
Derek DeForest profiles Leanna, a Two-Spirit Klamath tribal member who has learned to connect with her voices and visions.
Creation Stories
Melissa Bennett writes about the bittersweet search for her Indigenous roots as a transracial adoptee.
We Will Be Here
Lana Jack writes about the mourning, resilience, and resistance of the Celilo Wy-am.
Boarding School Inheritance
Nolan James Briden writes intergenerational trauma and incarceration in this excerpt from Prisons Have a Long Memory: Life Inside Oregon’s Oldest Prison, a collection of writing by prisoners at Oregon State Penitentiary.
Purple Prairie
Josephine Woolington on how tribal members and conservationists are trying, camas patch by camas patch, to create a patchwork of native prairie in the Willamette Valley. An excerpt from Where We Call Home: Lands, Seas, and Skies of the Pacific Northwest
Woksemi
In this video—the first in a series of stories about life in Oregon called Yamatala—filmmaker Ke-As Ne-Asht Sheshatko follows a family on the Klamath Tribes' reservation during Woksemi, or Wokas harvest season.
Mëshatàm Lënapehòkink: I remember the land of the Lenape
A photoessay by Joe Whittle about finding joy and mourning on four journeys home.
Adaptation and Appreciation
Jacqueline Keeler writes about how tribal communities in Oregon may remember the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous Culture Day
Culture Day is a celebration of the reclamation of traditional lands for Indigenous Peoples that provides an accurate cultural experience for the whole community. This free, all-ages event offers the chance to listen and learn from Indigenous educators in the culturally rich land now known as Tryon Creek State Natural Area.
Beyond Pigmentocracy
Chance White Eyes and Rachel L. Cushman write about how racism, representation, and internalized oppression affect their family
Consider This with Robin Wall Kimmerer
Join us for an online conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass and Gathering Moss. Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. This event will be streamed live as part of our series American Dreams, American Myths, American Hopes.
Bringing Otters Back to Otter Rock
Heather Wiedenhoft talks with Robert Kentta about how the Elakha Alliance and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians are working to return a lost population of sea otters to the Oregon coast.
Consider This with David Treuer
On July 15, David Treuer (Ojibwe), author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, will join Oregon Humanities for a conversation on land, possession, and justice. The history of the Americas is inextricable from the theft of land from Native people. How should we, in the present, deal with this fact?
Land Conservation: Roots, Realities, and Reimaginings
Join Katie Voelke, executive director of North Coast Land Conservancy, as she discusses NCLC’s work to protect Oregon's coastal lands. In this two-part workshop, Katie will walk participants through the organization’s own path of relearning the racist history of land conservation in the US and the ways that conservation, through the land trust’s tools of ownership, has perpetuated Indigenous land loss.
Land Conservation: Roots, Realities, and Reimaginings
Join Katie Voelke, executive director of North Coast Land Conservancy, as she discusses NCLC’s work to protect Oregon's coastal lands. In this two-part workshop, Katie will walk participants through the organization’s own path of relearning the racist history of land conservation in the US and the ways that conservation, through the land trust’s tools of ownership, has perpetuated Indigenous land loss.
Lies of Discovery
Sal Sahme explores the doctrine that enabled European colonization and argues for it to be revoked.
Can the Land Make Us One People?
An excerpt from Jacqueline Keeler's book Standoff contrasts the standoffs at Malheur and Standing Rock.
Changing the Way We See Native America
Over the past decade, photographer Matika Wilbur has developed a body of imagery and cultural representations of Native peoples to counteract one-dimensional stereotypes and to create positive Indigenous role models. In this talk, learn about the ways Matika Wilbur is changing the way we see Native America through her work, including her exhibition "Natural Wanderment: Stewardship. Sovereignty. Sacredness."
Indian Enough
Emma Hodges writes about how the "enduring colonialist notion" of blood quantum fails to encompass the complexity of Native identity.
“Our Story on Our Territory”
Leslie Ann McMillan, an enrolled Chinook member, writes about how her people's lands were stolen and how they are starting to reclaim them.