It seems important to tribes that if they are truly to become restored, and decolonized, they need to be culturally restored by helping to decolonize
Author: David G. Lewis, PhD
OSU Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies & Indigenous Studies. Member of the Grand Ronde Tribe, Takelma, Chinook, Molalla, and Santiam Kalapuya. Professional consultant, educator and researcher.
I teach at local universities and colleges and take contracts with tribes, local governments and nonprofits. I have experience in archival organization, museum development, exhibit curation, traditional cultural property nomination, tribal ethnohistoric research, tribal maps, traditional ecological knowledge, and presentations to large and small gatherings. Contact me for consultation about any of these projects.
Camas Journal, May 10, 2022 Minto-Brown Park
Visited again Minto-Brown park to see all of the camas fields. That field near the city has at this time a very thin population of
Camas Journal, May 8, 2022
I returned today to Bush Park to take in the middle prairie and see how things are going. The weather has scattered spring rains all
Joryville Park May 5, 2022
I recently heard about another park I had not been to in Salem, Joryville Park. I went assuming it would be mostly grassland but was
Camas Journal, May 4, 2022
Today, I found time to visit a third field in Salem with lots of camas. Minto-Brown Island Park has several fields at least two of