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One Hundred Years of Prohibition at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation

August 11, 2012

  [Originally written for the Oregon Beer Growler for their online journal, in 2012, their site is either down or they no longer feature the article.] One Hundred Years of Prohibition at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation David G. Lewis, PhD The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon is a federally recognized … More One Hundred Years of Prohibition at the Grand Ronde Indian Reservation

Historical Errors are the Rule, not the Exception

August 11, 2012

Over the past few years, I have pursued questions of the way history is written about the formation of the reservations in Oregon. I am not trained as a historian but instead as an anthropologist but the disciplines cross over well. Most of my work has been in ethnohistory, an admixture of ethnic studies, history … More Historical Errors are the Rule, not the Exception