Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley

Name: Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley
Start: 2024-11-21T18:00:00-08:00
End: 2024-11-21T19:30:00-08:00
Location: 585 Liberty St. SE, Salem, OR, United States, Oregon 97301

Schedule

Thu Nov 21 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

585 Liberty St. SE, Salem, OR, United States, Oregon 97301 | Salem, OR

A presentation by David G. Lewis, author of Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley. This free event, with seating available on first-come, first-seated basis, is supported by the Salem Public Library Foundation.
The Willamette Valley is rich with history—its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories, highlighting Native perspectives about the history of the Willamette Valley as they experienced it.
David G. Lewis, PhD and member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, is a recognized researcher, scholar, writer and assistant professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at Oregon State University. His publications include “Willamette Valley Treaties,” “A History of Native Peoples of the Eugene, Cascades & Coast Region,” and others. For more than twenty years, Lewis has been passionate about studying the original histories of the people of Oregon and California and has an extensive record of collaborative projects with regional scholars, tribes, local governments, and communities. Lewis’s research specializes in the history of Kalapuyans and other Western Oregon tribes, which he explores through journal essays and on his blog The Quartux Journal. He currently resides in Chemeketa, now Salem, Oregon, with his wife, Donna, and two sons, Saghaley and Inatye.