At 6:30pm on Thursday, December 12th, 2013, tribal members from the
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and our third graders from Sauvie Island
Academy will host a Tribal Cultural Heritage Education Night in the Sauvie
Island Academy school gymnasium. This event is free and open to the public, and
will provide a wonderful opportunity for the school, island, and nearby communities
to learn more about the first inhabitants of the island, and tribal cultural lifeways.
Organized by Grand Ronde tribal member, cultural consultant, and educator Greg
Archuleta and myself - this event will feature tribal drumming and singing, as well as traditional foods and
cultural demonstrations stations for youth, adults, and families. Stations are slated
to include: traditional paint making with minerals, cordage making (with cattail,
dogbane, cedar), chinuk wawa language basics, necklace making, and tribal history.
Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and our third graders from Sauvie Island
Academy will host a Tribal Cultural Heritage Education Night in the Sauvie
Island Academy school gymnasium. This event is free and open to the public, and
will provide a wonderful opportunity for the school, island, and nearby communities
to learn more about the first inhabitants of the island, and tribal cultural lifeways.
Organized by Grand Ronde tribal member, cultural consultant, and educator Greg
Archuleta and myself - this event will feature tribal drumming and singing, as well as traditional foods and
cultural demonstrations stations for youth, adults, and families. Stations are slated
to include: traditional paint making with minerals, cordage making (with cattail,
dogbane, cedar), chinuk wawa language basics, necklace making, and tribal history.
Our third graders will be on hand to help out with the event and
share their learning from a recent in-depth unit on Chinookan peoples. They will
display their diorama of a Chinookan plankhouse village, classroom work, as well as the classroom
aquarium in which they are raising Chinook salmon eggs for release in the wild.
Greg Archuleta and I met in 2012 at a workshop on Native Uses of
Pacific NW Plants he taught at Portland Nursery. A conversation began to
plan an event that would fulfill the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s efforts to
preserve and perpetuate the cultural heritage of the original tribes of the Grand
Ronde community through educational outreach, as well as Sauvie Island
Academy’s mission to bridge classrooms and communities through Place Based
Education.
share their learning from a recent in-depth unit on Chinookan peoples. They will
display their diorama of a Chinookan plankhouse village, classroom work, as well as the classroom
aquarium in which they are raising Chinook salmon eggs for release in the wild.
Greg Archuleta and I met in 2012 at a workshop on Native Uses of
Pacific NW Plants he taught at Portland Nursery. A conversation began to
plan an event that would fulfill the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s efforts to
preserve and perpetuate the cultural heritage of the original tribes of the Grand
Ronde community through educational outreach, as well as Sauvie Island
Academy’s mission to bridge classrooms and communities through Place Based
Education.
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