

Wed, Mar 19
|Spoke & Word Books
Own Voices Book Club: Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley
Join us for book club - we are reading Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley and coming together at the store to discuss.
Time & Location
Mar 19, 2025, 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Spoke & Word Books, 10863 SE Main St, Milwaukie, OR 97222, USA
About the event
Join us for book club - we are reading Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley and coming together at the store to discuss.
Each person who RSVPs will receive a copy of the book at no cost thanks to a grant funded by the Equity Steering Committee (City of Milwaukie). 20 attendees are welcome to join us by RSVP'ing to this event.
About Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley:
From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley.
The Willamette Valley is rich with history — its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical…