Willamette Valley History Series: Chemawa Indian Training School with Dr. David G. Lewis

The Sustainable Living Center’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, with a focus on Harwood H. Hall, the superintendent from 1916-1924.

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.

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Capacity in the hall is limited, so please RSVP to lisatrauernicht@slcsalem.org