The SLC’s mission  is to provide a unique living laboratory that educates and encourages  sustainable practices in daily life, and we believe that understanding  the history of this living laboratory is important  to achieving our mission.

Dr. David G. Lewis returns for the fifth presentation in the Willamette Valley History Series to discuss his research on the Chemawa Indian Training School.

Dr. Lewis is an assistant professor of  Anthropology and Indigenous Studies at Oregon State University, who in  2001 began publishing his extensive research on the Tribal histories of  the Northwest Coastal peoples, specializing in the  Western Oregon Tribes. 

While most publications and stories omit over ten thousand years of human history in the region, Dr. Lewis’s most recent work, “Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley,”  focuses on the region’s First Peoples and their experiences  as their homelands drastically changed in a short amount of time.

You can find more information about Dr. Lewis and the book here, and more of his work can be found here.

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