QUARTUX JOURNAL: The NDNHISTORYRESEARCH Blog

is produced by David G. Lewis, PhD, who is the researcher, writer, and graphics creator

I am an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and a descendant of the Santiam Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, Takelma, and Yoncalla Kalapuya peoples of western Oregon.  I am a past manager of the Grand Ronde Cultural Resources Department, and past Tribal Museum Curator & Tribal Historian.  I have a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Oregon, where I was the Director of the Southwest Oregon Research Project. I served two terms as an Oregon Heritage Commission member, and two years as the chair of the Commission. I now work as an educator, teaching in local universities, and since 2018 at OSU as Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies & Indigenous Studies.  I am now in my final year of tenure track at OSU.  I live in the Santiam Homelands of Chemeketa (Salem, Oregon). (Short resume)

I regularly create presentations for community groups, heritage organizations, and university classes.  The majority of the presentations are about the tribes of western Oregon, and I can tailor any presentation for any area and tribe in the region. There are many tribal regions in Oregon and I have studied a good number of them, including Willamette Valley, Umpqua Valley, Rogue River valley, Oregon Coast, Columbia River, Eastern Oregon, Klamath basin, and areas of northern California and southern Washington.  There are significant themes in the region that are addressed; termination of the tribes, treaties, reservations, environmental change, ethnobotany, diseases, removals, volunteer militias, genealogy, logging, and agricultural farmworker traditions,  and historiography in Oregon. I have written and published numerous articles about the history of the tribes of Oregon, and the surrounding area. TEK (Traditional Ecological Knowledge) has become prominent in my work.

My presentations: some of which are videotaped and available online somewhere

Ready to present:

Reconstructing Traditional Indigenous environments (100+ times, videos)

Harwood Hall and Indian Capitol at Chemawa Indian School (10 times)

Temporary Encampments and Removal of the Willamette Valley tribes (new)

Draining Willamette Valley Wetlands (25+ times)

Upper McKenzie Tribal Culture

Columbia River Tribes

Native Peoples of the Columbia and Willamette

Chinookans, Kalapuyans Colonialism

Upper Willamette Valley Tribes

Lower Willamette Valley tribes

Acorns, Elk , and Ponderosas, Klamath Trade and travel

Rogue and Umpqua Peoples

Changes come to the Native Peoples of Oregon (OHS presentation, video)

TEK of Kalapuyans, Anthropocene and Missoula floods

Retired Presentations: 

Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley (Book launch tie-in, Videos)

Western Oregon Tribal History (DEI, History)

Oregon Indian Education  (DEI)

SWORP Project History

No Treaties for the Tillamook

Kalapuya Lifeways and Structures

Camas and Wapato

Before Salem, Chemeketa Kalapuyans

Cayuse Five

Contemporary era Colonization and and Change

Identity of the Grand Ronde Community

Wapato Valley and removal of the tribes

Tualatin Kalapuyans

Southern Oregon Coast Tribes, Coast reservation

Removal of the Coastal tribes

Traditional Land claims of the Western Oregon Tribes

Forced Removals

Tillamookans

Kalapuyans and Molallans of the Santiam

Canoe Culture

Research and Consultation services

I regularly have research projects ongoing all times of the year. Please contact me ahead of time, especially if my part of the project could be a good number of hours of work and travel. I can, with shorter and small projects review something quickly and get it back within a week, but no promises. Research is time consuming and I have to fit into my teaching, university, and home schedules. My regular hourly rate is now $100/hr for most projects. For projects which take extensive travel expect larger quotes.

Recent research projects

Portland:  5 statues narratives of Indigenous history

Portland: Native peoples of the Johnson Creek Watershed

Portland: Native peoples of the middle Columbia: Cascades

Eugene: Whittaker Neighborhood Native history

Springfield: Photos from archives

McKenzie River Discovery Center: Native history and images of the Upper McKenzie

Portland Audubon: Native history of the Tualatin Hills

Portland: METRO: Clackamas Peoples

Portland: METRO: Tualatin Peoples

Coquille tribe: Battle Rock TCP

Coquille Tribe: Grandmother Rock TCP

Coos, Lower Umpqua, Siuslaw Tribe: Coos Bay TCP rewrite

Tolowa Dee’ni Tribe, CA: Territorial Claims

Exhibit curation and consultation projects:

Grand Ronde Canoe Journey, Willamette Cultural Center, Salem

Kalapuya History (permanent Exhibit), Willamette Cultural Center, Salem

Kalapuyans, Linn County Museum, Brownsville

Kalapuyans, Jefferson Museum, Jefferson

This is Kalapuyan Land, Five Oaks Museum, Washington County.

 

To request my services

I get numerous requests for presentations, consultations, and projects all the time – so in order to help me make a decision about a request- please answer the following questions. Cut-N-paste them into your email and answer them as fully as possible. When you send me an email, please answer these questions:

1. Describe your project request fully. Who is requesting this & what organization?

2. What are you requesting that I do? Be specific with subjects needing to be addressed.

3. How many hours do you expect this project to take?

4. For a presentation, how long, what date, and what time of the day?  Is this to be over Zoom or Teams or in person?

5. Are you offering compensation, & travel reimbursement? As much as you know, what are you offering? I rarely do free presentations anymore, its taken some time and effort to to get to this point and my time and experience is valuable.

6. Who is the contact person, email, phone number, and best times to call. I use email almost exclusively. Phone messages will go unanswered in most cases. (I get numerous spam/scan/phishing calls daily now so the phone is not the best option.)

Contact Me (dgl.coyotez @ gmail.com) for a consultation about projects in anthropological & ethnohistorical research, writing, and editing. I have worked on projects for tribes, cities, universities, museums, exhibits, historical societies, heritage organizations, and individuals interested in writing their family biography. I am a recognized professional in archival organization, and in anthropological, and historical research.

Donations

The articles on this site take many hours to research and write, please donate to the journal to help me continue this work and pay the annual fees for keeping the journal online and free to anyone. The donation email is dglwritereditor@gmail.com.

The suggested donation is $60.00 annually on Paypal.

Or- if you choose – you may donate $5 monthly using the Paypal subscription service.

I also use Venmo if you prefer, @david-lewis-580.

Qa’pai! (thank you)