Native American Authors and Book Signing Brown Bag December 21, 2006

This is a free event!

The brown bag will celebrate three new and exciting books released this year on Native peoples by Oregon Native authors, and contributors. They will give short presentations on their books and sign copies.

When the River Ran Wild! Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation by George Aguilar, Sr. In this remarkable personal memoir and tribal history, we learn about Aguilar's people, the Kiksht-speaking Eastern Chinookans, who lived and worked for centuries connected to the rhythms and resources of the great fishing grounds of the Columbia River at Five Mile Rapids. Through extensive research and memoir this recount and research is made for his grandchildren and those to come.

George Aguilar is the 2006 recipient of the Oregon Book Award’s Sarah Winnemucca Award for Creative Non-Fiction. The Judge Jonathan Yardley called the book "an important contribution to the history of the author's people, the Eastern Chinook Indians, and to the history of Oregon as well, and is a moving book in its own right."

Wiyáxayxt / Wiyáakaa'awn/ As Days Go By Our History, Our Land, Our People The Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, edited by Jennifer Karson, special guests TBA. In this history of the Umatilla , Cayuse, and Walla Walla people, tribal members of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation have taken on their own historical retelling, drawing on the scholarship of non-Indians as a useful tool and external resource.

Native America: Discovered and Conquered, by Robert Miller, Professor Robert Miller addresses the international legal principle called the Doctrine of Discovery and how that legal rule was used in American history and transformed into the American policy of Manifest Destiny. Bob’s interdisciplinary approach in his research also uncovered the new idea that Manifest Destiny arose directly from the legal elements and principles of the Discovery Doctrine.

For more information, contact: Native Programs

Craig Jacobson 503-467-0773

Elizabeth Woody 503-467-0751

Ecotrust is a conservation organization committed to strengthening communities and the environment from Alaska to California. We work with native peoples and in the fisheries, forestry, and food sectors to build a regional economy on social and ecological opportunities.