Here's a forthcoming book to look forward to!
Anthropologist and historian David G. Lewis has written Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley. PSU's Ooligan Press has it scheduled for a November publication.
After reading an advance copy, Willamette University Professor David Craig blurbed it, and noted extra significance for Willamette and its relation to Jason Lee and others:
Lewis’s book is a must-read for every Oregon educator, field-based scientist, and natural resource manager in the Willamette Valley....
This book reveals the cultural and natural history of tribal people through settler colonialism, providing a critical perspective for understanding current and future problems of ecology and social justice....This book will add momentum to the Land Back movement and invites those of us operating in Oregon’s oldest institutions to do more to acknowledge the harm caused by our founders and many of those who followed.
The book doesn't yet have an entry in the Salem Public Library/CCRLS catalogue, and hopefully they'll order it and fix that soon!
In the meantime, lots of the material in preliminary, draft form can be found at Lewis' blog. His most recent post is on emerging Camas and management by cultural fire.
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