By Eric Jones | Project Leader
The Portland Ethnobotany Project will be in the development stage throughout 2010. This last few months we have concentrated on:
- Outreach to long-term participants including local Native American Indians. The area now known as Portland where the Columbia and Willamette rivers merge was until 170 years ago a great trading crossroads for Native American tribes from throughout the region. Many tribes lived in or near the area including the Kalapuya Tualatin, Chinook Multnomah, Wappato, and Clackamas, and the Clatskanie. Today the remaining members of these tribes are working to identify fractured cultural knowledge and traditions. The Portland Grand Ronde office, Native American Student Center at Portland State and other tribal centers offer networking opportunities for our project.
- We are looking through historical records to try to locate pre-European, culturally important trees and managed plant areas. We are doing this to narrow the pool of potential site visits with elders and youth. Some databases like the Portland Parks and Recreation Heritage Tree Database.
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