Some 170 years after European settlers invaded the Willamette Valley and made it their own, the other side of the story is being told in greater depth and detail by Tribal descendants.
Winners of Oregon State University’s first Engagement Awards were honored during the inaugural OSU Engagement Conference Sept. 5 at the CH2M Hill Alumni Center on the Corvallis campus.
Living-learning communities enable students to participate in academic and personal development under a shared topic.
For months at a time, Oregon State University archaeology students worked to uncover secrets from the past. For 10 years, they set up along the Salmon River near where the borders of Oregon, Washington and Idaho all meet.
Oregon State University students now have the opportunity to enhance their degree with a minor in Indigenous studies, which not only covers Indigenous histories but contemporary issues Indigenous communities face today as well.
Tribal members and conservationists are trying, camas patch by camas patch, to create a patchwork of native prairie in the Willamette Valley.