Oregon
Pat Courtney Gold’s Baskets (Photo Diary)
Basketry is probably the oldest art form, although the archaeological record is devoid of the earliest basketry. In his 1904 book American Indian Basketry, Otis […]
Oregon
Columbia River Beadwork (Photo Diary)
Today, the Columbia River marks the boundary between Oregon and Washington. The river was named for the ship Columbia Rediviva whose captain, John Gray, sailed […]
Inuit Art (Photo Diary)
The Artic Culture Area includes the Aleutian Islands, most of the Alaska Coast, the Canadian Artic, and parts of Greenland. It is an area which […]
Contemporary American Indian Art (Photo Diary)
In museums, textbooks, the popular media, and college classrooms, American Indians are often kept in the ghetto of the past. Displays of American Indian art […]
Salish Weaving (Photo Diary)
The Salish-speaking First Nations whose aboriginal homelands included the Pacific coast area of present-day Washington and British Columbia have a long tradition of weaving. Weaving […]
The Methodists Run the Siletz Indian Reservation
By 1870, it was clearly evident that the Indian Service was the most corrupt branch of the federal government and that Indian reservations were often […]
The Siletz Room (Photo Diary)
The Siletz Room in the Burrows House Museum in Newport, Oregon, contains baskets and beadwork from the Clarinda G. Copeland (1852-1929) Collection. Born Clarinda Gertrude […]
History 101: The Oregon Trail and the Grand Ronde
The Oregon rest stops along the highway that follows the old Oregon Trail have kiosks displaying the history of the trail. The map shown above […]
Northwest Coast Masks (Photo Diary)
The Northwest Coast culture area stretches along the Pacific coast between the Cascade Mountains and the ocean. It extends north of California to Alaska. This […]
Yurok Tribe applauds U.S Senator’s opposition to Jordan Cove LNG export project
Youth activists at protest against LNG pipeline. Photo courtesy of Kerul Kyer. The Yurok Tribe has just issued their statement in response to U.S Senator […]