Decolonizing Thanksgiving in Oregon By Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, Fertile Ground Communications (written in 2021; updated for 2024) Many of us grew up learning the myth of Native Americans teaching the struggling pilgrims how to survive and celebrating with a feast in 1621. But for most Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of mourning. Thanksgiving is in
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November 17, 2023
Decolonizing Thanksgiving in Oregon
Decolonizing Thanksgiving in Oregon By Marie Gettel-Gilmartin, Fertile Ground Communications (written in 2021; updated for 2023 with items in blue text) Many of us grew up learning the myth of Native Americans teaching the struggling pilgrims how to survive and celebrating with a feast in 1621. But for most Native Americans, Thanksgiving is a day of
September 13, 2023
Keeping Columbia County’s history alive
This article is the first in our series on the 14 capital projects that failed to get funded by the Oregon Legislature in 2023. The Cultural Advocacy Coalition of Oregon sought $11.8 million in lottery bonds to fund Cultural Resource Economic Fund (CREF) projects across the state. Only two Portland-based projects were funded at $4 million,
June 23, 2022
Celebrating PRIDE in Oregon!
Celebrate Pride in Ashland and Portland at member events The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is celebrating #PRIDE with an exciting new play, open through October! Buckle up for a musical story about Julie d’Aubigny—a queer 17th-century rule-breaking, sword fighting, opera-singing transgressor of boundaries. It’ll be loud, it’ll be rowdy, and it’ll be hilarious! Qui Nguyen sets
June 14, 2022
Fixing Oregon’s racist place names
Many of us know Oregon was founded as a racist utopia. Did you know we still have racist place names littered across the state? Oregon has 12 places with “negro” in the title, and 55 with “squaw,” a racist term to describe Native American women. Many of these places used an even more racist term,