Oregon Is Indian County Exhibit at the West Linn Public Library

Press release date: 2009-04-27
WEST LINN – The West Linn Public Library is hosting a special exhibit of Oregon’s Native American heritage, Oregon Is Indian Country, showing May 4 – June 3. The exhibit is a direct result of the Oregon Tribes Project, a multi-year collaboration between the Oregon Historical Society’s Folklife Program and Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes. Tribal members documented their contemporary traditions and worked with Society staff to plan a series of heritage resources to be used to teach about tribal histories and cultures.

Oregon Is Indian Country represents a groundbreaking project bringing all nine Oregon tribes together to present information never before assembled in one exhibit on contemporary indigenous cultures. The library will be hosting one of three exhibit panels. The other two parts of the exhibit will be at the Lake Oswego Public Library and the Wilsonville Public Library.

Come to the library on Wednesday, May 27, 6:30 p.m. for an all-ages interactive performance of Northwest Native American stories with Ed Edmo. Edmo is a Shoshone-Bannock poet, playwright, performer, traditional storyteller, tour guide and lecturer on Northwest tribal culture.

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