Darkening and Enlightening Santiam Kalapuya Prophecy

[This is a portion of a developing essay.] My original presentation on the subject was at the Arlington Club in Portland on January 29, 2015. I was invited to do a poetry reading by the State’s Poet Laureate Peter Sears. The event is a annual poetry reading in Honor of William Stafford. The videotape of my presentation is on Youtube, David Lewis Expanding Voices Presentation, 1/29/15 Over the last half century, one of Mose Hudson’s accounts “A Kalapuya Prophecy” was reanalyzed by Jerold Ramsey using ethnopoetics (developed by Dell Hymes) to draw out context and emotion in the original story. … Continue reading Darkening and Enlightening Santiam Kalapuya Prophecy