The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue
The first collection of writings and images focused on an off-reservation Indian boarding school, The Indian School on Magnolia Avenue shares the fascinating story of...
Giving Back
How can scholars best give back to the communities in which they conduct their research? This critical question arises from a long history of colonial...
Salmon Is Everything
After a devastating fish kill on the Klamath River, tribal members and theatre artist Theresa May developed a play to give voice to the central...
Badger and Coyote Were Neighbors
"Story story." For the Clackamas Chinook Indians, these words signaled the end of a myth recital. Melville Jacobs spent a lifetime recording traditional stories and...
The World Begins Here
The first inhabitants of Oregon had an intimate knowledge of the land and a rich tradition of oral storytelling. The white settlers brought their own...
The Sandal and the Cave
Luther Cressman's 1938 discovery of a 9,000-year-old sandal in Fort Rock Cave revolutionized accepted theories of western prehistory. The recovery of the woven sagebrush-bark sandal...
Teaching Oregon Native Languages
In a world where over half of the remaining 6000 languages will most likely disappear by the end of the century, attention has finally begun...
To Harvest, To Hunt
To Harvest, To Hunt reveals how diverse peoples have valued and used natural resources throughout the history of the American West. Drawing on family letters...