One Book, One Beaverton continues with two events coming up this week!
This week's One Book, One Beaverton events:
First Foods & Indigenous Cultural Lifeways of the Columbia River Basin
Monday, Jan. 13 | 6:30-7:30 PM | Meeting Room A (Main Library)
Friends of Tryon Creek Executive Director Gabe Sheoships is an enrolled citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation. He has spent the past two decades working on behalf of the restoration, protection, and education of Indigenous First Food resources. He will share a broad cultural history of the region and discuss why Indigenous land management practices are crucial to address modern climate change challenges and other environmental adaptation strategies.
Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge & Weaving Demonstration
Wednesday, Jan. 15 | 5:30-7 PM | Meeting Room A (Main Library)
Join Stephanie Craig (Santiam and Yoncolla Kalapuya, Takelma Rogue River and Clackamas Chinook) to learn about Indigenous lifeways, stewardship of the land, and traditional ecological knowledge. She will display some of her family's private collection of belongings, along with plant samples of foods and fibers, tools, and contemporary basketry. A seventh-generation basket weaver, Stephanie will demonstrate how to weave a tule duck decoy and discuss the importance and uses of tule to the local Native American people.
Explore the other One Book, One Beaverton events happening throughout January and February!
